First Great Western Major Service Alterations

OK so FGW have decided they need to revamp Reading train station. Their record in 2010 has been pretty good up until the start of November, yet since then pretty much 1 out of 2 trains I've treid to catch has been late. I'm not suprised, this is how it used to be all the time so the first 11 months of 2010 were blatantly a purple patch the company has now got over.

So to supplement the lateness they're causing by poor mangement and bad planning they have decided to pretty much double the size of Reading Station over Christmas this year closing it completely between 27th December to 3rd January.

Reading Station and railway line will be closing from the 27 December to 3 January to begin a programme of multi-million pound improvement works.

While this will be of benefit to customers in the long term, it does unfortunately mean that there will be periods where we are unable to run services on the Reading line. This means anyone planning on travelling over the Christmas period to, from or through the Reading area will be affected and should try to plan their journey in advance.

We are doing everything we can to get you to your destination. We are running trains via diversionary routes and when this is not possible replacing trains with a bus replacement service.

Either a masterstroke of genius, or the blind fumblings of foolishness - no, actually anyone can see it's not a masterstroke... Yet again decisions made at the highest level in FGW are completely out of touch from what is best for the majority of passengers, as per normal... Clueless, ignorant and on merciless quest to absolve all responsibility of being awful at their jobs - that's the management at Railtrack and FGW for ya, If only they were accountable for the public funds they needlessly waste.