Flooding in the city was continuing to cause disruption on the rail network on Thursday evening with cancellations to some services from Paddington.
On the train from Paddington last night I bumped into one former Welsh Labour MP who was putting the finishing touches to his novel.
"When the flame goes out at 2012, there's so much we can do with sport, " she said when speaking live on School Report TV to Joan and Ahmed from Paddington Academy at School Report HQ in London.
Both Gatwick and Heathrow have express rail lines from downtown, namely the Gatwick Express departing from Victoria Station and the Heathrow Express departing from Paddington Station, both of which will be less prone to gridlock than the motorways and the Tube.
She told BBC Radio Five Live that they wanted to get survivors and bereaved relatives from the Paddington crash talking to those from Southall as soon as possible, to help them to come to terms with the disaster.
Services into and from London Paddington will go via Oxford, adding around one hour 30 minutes to journeys.
First Great Western's high-speed services from London Paddington to Wales are either being cancelled or diverted through Box.
Network Rail is also upgrading the line from London Paddington to the west country and South Wales in readiness for electrification.
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"This means that trains from London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa have to remain for a number of minutes at Gloucester until a path is free, " he added.
Christmas Eve on the rail network saw services from London Paddington towards Exeter and the West of England terminating at Tiverton, with limited road transport continuing to Newton Abbot via Exeter St Davids.
The extra trains will leave Cardiff on Sunday morning at 08.15 BST and 08.38 BST, stopping at Newport at 08.33 BST and 08.55 BST, and return from London Paddington at 19.07 BST and 20.07 BST.
Meanwhile, the grim task of clearing the wreckage from the site of the Paddington disaster continued on Monday morning with teams beginning to remove more carriages from the scene.
Train services from London's Paddington have returned to normal following two days of disruption, train companies have said.
The Night Riviera runs southwest from London's Paddington Station and keeps going until it runs out of land at Penzance in Cornwall.
Much has been made of a cycle way going on top of the A40 but there are actually plans for a cycleway to go below the Westway from Westbourne Park to Paddington.
Alan Connett had a ticket from Newton Abbot to London Paddington, but decided to board the train up the line at Exeter after his circumstances changed.
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At Exeter, Network Rail is using a water-filled tube to act as a dam to protect the main railway line between London Paddington and Penzance from flooding.
From April the service will leave Paddington 12 minutes early but the original timetable will apply at the Gloucestershire end.
From Enfield and Battersea Park to Paddington and Croydon, music will ring out all day on 9 September across London for anyone who wishes to celebrate the end of the Great British Summer.
Parts of Britain's rail system, such as the commuter routes into Paddington, are under pressure from rising traffic volumes.
And foreign sports fans have queued for up to six hours to pick up Olympics tickets from reseller Cosport at its base in Paddington Green in London.
And it led to fresh claims that he had once again shot from the hip, in the immediate aftermath of Paddington, only later to find that what he had suggested was impractical.
Services from Bristol Temple Meads and South Wales in and out of London Paddington will be diverted via Banbury and Oxford, adding about 90 minutes to journeys.
On 20 August, the market will float over to Little Venice near Paddington in time for the Paralympic Games, taking place in London from 29 Aug to 9 September.
From the new cutting-edge design stores in Surry Hills to the boutiques in Paddington and Darlinghurst, Sydney is also chockablock with stylish shops.
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