You’re saying it would have been more sensible to write “We apologise, but this will increase the likelihood of a passenger disturbance on branch line trains, but your train might well be quieter.” 

My emphasises.

I'll take that final sentence as a question, Phantom. No expertise beyond my own dealings with the DWP and its handsomely rewarded, but poorly performing, contractors. No expertise beyond studying up on all the legislation, reading the Decision Makers Guidance and Health Professional's Guidance. I have the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security Act 1998 bookmarked in my browser. No expertise beyond reading case law. No expertise beyond helping several other people navigate the PIP claims and assessment process. No expertise beyond helping someone else successfully appeal at tribunal where, but for Covid, I would have appeared as a McKenzie Friend. No expertise beyond contributing and discussing my experiences with those involved in Upper Tier Tribunals and judicial reviews for PIP. No expertise beyond my OWN lived experiences.

Am I an expert? Far from it. But I do have some expertise borne from lived experience of being in the 'system'. All that said I continue to dread my next reassessment. It's a soul destroying, demoralising, dehumanising process that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

In other news, an agreement for solving the Sunday situation has been reached between the Unions and GWR, unfortunately the DfT have reportedly rejected the proposal. 

Oh yes it does - won't it reduce the loadings by having people miss connections, and increase the passenger angst and chance of passenger disturbances on the branch trains?   The JourneyCheck wording written from an operational rather than from a passenger journey viewpoint?

Cancellations to services between London Paddington and Reading

Due to engineering works not being finished on time between London Paddington and Reading fewer trains are able to run on some lines.

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled or delayed. Disruption is expected until 07:10 04/07.

Customer Advice
Due to engineering works not being finished in time, the line between London Paddington to Reading will be delayed; altered or cancelled.
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Rail replacement services are not in operation

"Should I spend 5, 60 or 180 minutes here?" when I arrived ... I have ended up spending the full three hours in a gem on the Bay of Biscay.

It was 08:52, in our hotel room, that I was looking into a trip out by train today ... and up popped the 09:04 option.  Scramble!  I am used to quickly throwing my things together but that was even quicker than usual, and being in a hotel just across the road from the station in Angers helped. Made it!

Change at Nantes ... huge crowds, signal failure flagged up, queues of people at enquiries / reservations - and my 20 minute change for Le Croisic was showing up as "delayed 20 minutes".  The incoming train was late from Le Croisic, lots of people piled out and it refilled (yes, filled, at least 4 carriages) before we headed off.
   
The line is like so many ones that are local or regional to a big city - full at Nantes but then more people got off that on - many more off at some stations - and there were about 20 of us - plus a school party that must have been about 30 more - when we reached the terminus.

Le Croisic is the end of the line - I couldn't go further - with the harbour and a headland (and town) ahead, and across to the left are the beaches and cliffs of the Bay of Biscay.  As ever, far too many thngs to photograph and I will add just five images.

Another station I've not visited since it was done up, though more recent. While being built, it looked distinctly Readingesque - does it strike you that way? Or perhaps like Reading would be with an indoor upstairs forest.

(Note: The following contains personal experience...)

With full expectation that one member in particular will know exactly where I was when I took these pictures - the first arriving (late) to form our service and the second at the end of the line ... it had turned around and left back quickly by the time I took the photo.

With full expectation that one member in particular will know exactly where I was when I took these pictures ...

Not sure if this is the right topic section - please move as appropriate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyl7ql6qy4o

Plans for new park and cycle facility approved
A project to turn vacant land at a Cornish railway station into a new park and cycle facility has been granted planning permission.

Cornwall Council said the project at Ponsandane aimed to improve travel in and around the town.
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So not a railway station then!

Might be just one train, but still insufficient crew to run it.
Unfortunate if that was the one a passenger had selected to travel on earlier.

Looking carefully - that's all just one train ...

Would it be over-pessimistic of me to think that despite the success of this trial, it may still be several years before we actually see any of these in regular service on GWR?  Infrastructure, training, certification, contracts and more still to do, and nothing ever seems to happen quickly.  Might still beat HS2 opening though!

The incentive is to get the assessments done, not get the assessments right.

There is something very wrong with a process where 60% of assessment decisions that are appealed at tribunal are overturned. That doesn't include any decisions changed through the DWPs 'Mandatory Reconsideration' process. Which, incidentally, is a stage everyone who appeals a decision has to go through first. This stage puts a time limit on the claimant to claim, but then there is no time limit for the DWP to respond.

For my own case. The assessment, Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) and tribunal were all decided on exactly the same supplied evidence. Healthcare 'professional' report suggested to the DWPs Decision Maker that I didn't meet the criteria for any points for any of the Daily Living tasks. DWP didn't change that score at MR stage. Tribunal gave me nine points.

I don't give a toss about how well trained these healthcare 'professionals' allegedly are. My experience is all that matters to me. Her report contained lies. Her report was patently wrong, contradicting evidence provided by genuine professionals with direct and ongoing knowledge of my healthcare. Her report was described as 'shoddy' by someone with years of experience dealing with benefit claimants.

For the record, I keep ALL my DWP paperwork. Whenever a decision is made I request the Decision Makers paperwork on that decision. Where anything important is discussed over the phone I request transcripts and/or copies of the recording. Where I haven't kept copies of submitted paperwork (usually because of DWP timescale pressure) I request copies from DWP. I have three box files of paperwork that contains ONLY documention pertinent to my welfare benefit reassessments.