{"id":354743,"date":"2025-08-18T18:04:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:04:48","slug":"bristol-parkway-train-services-latest-after-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354743\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Parkway: train services latest after incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 11.09am, 11.40am and 12.09am trains from Gloucester to Yate (with some via Cam and Dursley) have all been cancelled.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for National Rail said: &#8220;A safety inspection of the track is taking place between Cheltenham Spa \/ Gloucester and Bristol Parkway, closing the line running towards Bristol Parkway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As a result of this, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 70 minutes, revised or diverted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Major disruption is expected to continue to impact services until 1pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Great Western Railway customers may use their tickets on First Bus routes Y1 between Yate and Bristol, and also Y6 between Yate and Patchway at no extra cost.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>LATEST UPDATE as of 11.43am\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A National Rail spokesperson added: &#8220;The earlier safety inspection of the track taking place between Cheltenham Spa \/ Gloucester and Bristol Parkway has now been completed, allowing the line running towards Bristol Parkway to reopen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;As service recovers, trains may still be cancelled, severely delayed by up to 90 minutes, revised or diverted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Great Western Railway spokesperson added: &#8220;Where possible, trains will divert via an alternative route.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Where this is the case, Cam &amp; Dursley and Yate stations will not be served, and journey times will be extended.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Great Western Railway are currently looking to source alternative transport for any customers at these affected stations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;In addition to using the reduced Great Western Railway service, customers can use CrossCountry services (who are also diverting), or one of Great Western Railway&#8217;s London Paddington services from Gloucester, and then change at Swindon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You may use your ticket on CrossCountry services via any reasonable route at no extra cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 11.09am, 11.40am and 12.09am trains from Gloucester to Yate (with some via Cam and Dursley) have all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051097186013986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}