Image 387141, GW 16.03 Didcot Parkway-London Paddington (1P35, RT), Didcot Parkway station.
387141, GW 16.03 Didcot Parkway-London Paddington (1P35, RT), Didcot Parkway station.
387141, GW 16.03 Didcot Parkway-London Paddington (1P35, RT), Didcot Parkway station. This scene belies what appears to be a perfectly normal situation. 387141 leaves Didcot with the 16.03 to London Paddington. These Thames services all terminate at and start from Didcot rather than Oxford as should be the situation. But, following the decision not to continue the electrification to Oxford some 10 miles north, these very expensively procured units now only go as far as Didcot. The Oxford passengers have to go through the farcical process of changing to an old diesel unit to complete (or to start) their journeys. It begs the question, is this the way a modern railway should be operating? I can't help feeling that there was a better service in NSE days with 50s hauling a pretty intensive set of return diagrams that got the job done. Keywords: 387141 1P35 Didcot Parkway station.
387141, GW 16.03 Didcot Parkway-London Paddington (1P35, RT), Didcot Parkway station. This scene belies what appears to be a perfectly normal situation. 387141 leaves Didcot with the 16.03 to London Paddington. These Thames services all terminate at and start from Didcot rather than Oxford as should be the situation. But, following the decision not to continue the electrification to Oxford some 10 miles north, these very expensively procured units now only go as far as Didcot. The Oxford passengers have to go through the farcical process of changing to an old diesel unit to complete (or to start) their journeys. It begs the question, is this the way a modern railway should be operating? I can't help feeling that there was a better service in NSE days with 50s hauling a pretty intensive set of return diagrams that got the job done. Keywords: 387141 1P35 Didcot Parkway station.


This scene belies what appears to be a perfectly normal

situation. 387141 leaves Didcot with the 16.03 to London Paddington. These Thames services all terminate at and start from Didcot rather than Oxford as should be the situation. But, following the decision not to continue the electrification to Oxford some 10 miles north, these very expensively procured units now only go as far as Didcot. The Oxford passengers have to go through the farcical process of changing to an old diesel unit to complete (or to start) their journeys. It begs the question, is this the way a modern railway should be operating? I can't help feeling that there was a better service in NSE days with 50s hauling a pretty intensive set of return diagrams that got the job done.