Summary of weeks travel

Monday 8th January

07:31 Oldfield Park to Temple Meads 2 carriages, crowded but I was able to board and stand

17:04 Bristol Temple Meads to Oldfield Park 2 carriages, crowded but I was able to board and stand.

Tuesday 9th January
07:31 Oldfield Park to Temple Meads 2 carriages. Unable to board due to overcrowding

17:04 Bristol Temple Meads to Oldfield Park. 2 carriages. Service was 20 minutes late and I was unable to board due to overcrowding. Guard threatened to cancel the service if some people did not disembark because level of overcrowding was unsafe. Dozens of people left behind. I boaded the delayed 17:22 service(2 carriages) and arrived home 30 minutes late.

Wednesday 10th January
07:06 train failed at Oldfield Park and all pasengers had to disembark. No other train arrived until 08:00 when the delyed 07:31 arrived with 2 carriages. Approx 100 people at Oldfield Park unable to board as train was already overcrowded. Many passengers were also unable to baord the following Abbey Wood service. I was finally able to board a service at approx 8:12

17:04 2 carriages. 30 minutes late on arrival at Oldfield Park

Thursday 11th January. A good day for me
07:31 3 carriages!
17:04 3 carriages!

This is what we want! Unforntubately I understand that the 17:22 from BTH was only 2 carriages again and very overcrowded.

Friday 12th January
A repeat of Wednesday this morning. The 07:31 was back to 2 carriages again) and was 20 minutes late after apparently failing at Westbury. Hardly anyone at Oldfield park was able to board and the guard had to ask people to disembark just so that he could get back on the train!

I caught the delayed 07:36 South West trains service at O7:55 but some people were still stranded at Oldfield Park(and of course at poor old Keynsham). The guard on the South West trains service was at pains to explain that the delay to that service and the gross overcrowding was entirely due to the failure of the preceding First Great Western service.

Homeward bound... 17:04. 3 carriages...for the 2nd day in a row. Reason for optimism?