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What's going on

Due to an earlier signalling problem between Salisbury and Exeter St Davids  train services running through these stations may be delayed by up to 10 minutes or revised. Disruption is expected until 09:00

What we're doing about it

We were informed of an earlier signalling problem in the Tisbury area that caused delay to services running between Salisbury and Exeter St Davids. The issue has been resolved but due to sections of single line there have been further delays to trains in the area.

For further information or onward travel advice please speak to a member of staff or use a station help point. 

We are very sorry for any delay that this may cause to your journey. 

Further Information

If you would prefer to use local buses to continue your journey please check Traveline - your rail ticket is not valid on local buses unless stated above.

Have you been delayed? Please visit our refunds and compensation page for our compensation policy.

If you would like to make a comment about your experience with us today, please call us on 0345 6000 650 (option 4) or visit our contact page for other ways to get in touch with us.

This includes the permanent withdrawal of services to Bristol on Saturdays.

Engineering works will further affect journeys on some weekends – for more information on this visit our engineering work weekly summary page.

The underlying cause of these issues is a shortage of available drivers, due to the extensive disruption Covid-19 restrictions have caused to our new driver training programme over the past year. The delay to newly trained drivers passing out of our Salisbury depot has been further compounded by problems securing replacement buses and taxis. By taking this action, we aim to provide certainty for customers and reduce the number of late notice cancellations.

We're sorry for the inconvenience this will cause our customers.

A summary of these changes is below:

• Salisbury to London Waterloo stopping services will terminate at Basingstoke – customers will need to change at Basingstoke for onward services to Woking, Clapham Junction and Waterloo
• London Waterloo to Salisbury services will start at Basingstoke. Customers travelling from Waterloo, Clapham Junction and Woking will need to catch an earlier service and change at Basingstoke
• SWR services between Salisbury and Bristol will not run. Customers will need to use connecting GWR services via a change at Salisbury. If you have an Advance ticket, you will be able to travel on GWR services on this route. If you can, try to travel close to your original booked time.
• Customers travelling to and from Warminster and Westbury may be able to use the Salisbury – Yeovil via Westbury services which will continue to run.
• SWR services to Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction via Westbury will run as normal.
• SWR services between London Waterloo and Exeter (via Salisbury) will run as normal.