{"id":687568,"date":"2026-07-12T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:47:14","slug":"heat-related-changes-to-gwr-trains-between-reading-and-paddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687568\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-related changes to GWR trains between Reading and Paddington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rail passengers are being warned that some trains between London Paddington, Reading and Oxford will be altered due to the continuing hot weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It means Great Western Railway (GWR) trains, which would normally call at Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough, will run non-stop between Reading and London Paddington in both directions and fewer direct trains will run to Oxford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While services are disrupted between 11:00 and 20:00 BST, tickets can be used at no extra cost on the Elizabeth line to or from Twyford, Maidenhead or Slough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Travelling to or from Slough, Maidenhead, or Twyford, passengers can travel via Reading if it provides a faster route to or from London Paddington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GWR said the alterations were in place because the hot weather could cause points failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To reduce disruption, the train operator said some points had been be set in place to protect the route to and from London Paddington from major disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rail passengers are being warned that some trains between London Paddington, Reading and Oxford will be altered due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}