Margaret Swift
To be fair to FGW the delays between Exeter and London up to this weekend have been solely due to the much needed work on the Whiteball tunnel. I travel to London every week and sometimes twice a week and have not had any significant delays up until this engineering work. People who use the longer SW trains route do so because they choose to go into London Waterloo. Whether the trains run as they ...
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Do you know if the work on the Whiteball tunnel has been completed? It was due to be finished today. If it hasn't then FGW trains will still have to use the SW line, which adds at least an hour onto the journey. Add another hour on because of using the coach link between Dawlish and Exeter.
Anyone needing to travel by train to London this week from our end of Devon is going to find it an arduous and very long journey. We have a lot of people living down here who need to get to London for business purposes. FGW really are going to have to pull out all the stops to get people to work. The same applies for anyone travelling to the midlands and north of England and for all our local ...
I go up to London most weeks for my work and have used that line since the work on the Whiteball tunnel as FGW sent most of their trains that way. I was told on Thursday by rail staff that the work on the Whiteball tunnel is overrunning by two days so it will be chaos on Monday and Tuesday as all the FGW trains will have to start from Taunton. My journey was already going to be around six hours ...
They should have done that years ago instead of patching up the wall. They will have to do something similar now if we are going to keep our railway line.
Thanks Lynne, I was supposed to be travelling Monday on that line so will have to cancel my trip.
