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Rail sidings could be upgraded
4:54pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
Facilities at First Great Western's Oxford carriage sidings may be upgraded to help improve reliability of rail services in the county, particularly on the Cotswold Line to Worcester.
Mark Hopwood, the performance director of First Great Western, told the annual meeting of the Cotswold Line Promotion Group, which represents passengers on the route, that he was looking at ways to reduce empty train movements to and from the company's depots in London and Bristol.
Key morning peak services are sometimes caught up in delays many miles away, before the start of their timetabled journeys. Plans could include keeping extra trains overnight at Oxford, Worcester, Hereford or Reading and FGW was looking at how this could be done and the facilities that might be needed.
The sidings at Oxford were last modernised in 1992-93 for Thames Turbo trains.
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Tim, Rose Hill says...
9:24am Wed 14 May 08
joe wrote:(1) Didcot yard is owned by one of the freight companies (EWS), not FGW (2) FGW's sidings are in Jericho, not Hinksey (3) trains that are parked for the night won't be belching fumes because they will be shut down.
perfectly good depot with sidings down the road in Didcot you know... why do we have to have FGW HST Trains belching their fumes in Hinkskey??
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joe, oxford says...
8:10pm Tue 13 May 08