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FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/2833 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 Link below. http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?id=424 The following changes to services will be introduced on Monday 15 January: Oxford, Didcot and Thames Valley Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/2835 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 Letter from Glenda Lamont : Dear Customer I write as part of a communication which I am sending to all customers who have contacted us regarding aspects of our train service from Oxford. You may be aware of a recent letter in your local paper. In this, our Managing Director, Alison Forster assured customers that we were looking at the timetable and identifying areas where we could make some amendments. Having completed this review, I am pleased to inform you that from Monday 15th January 2007, the following changes will happen: Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/2875 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 Further links on this. http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/commuters_hopeful_over_train_c.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/railway_cuts_are_reversed.html#more http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/overcrowding_forces_first_to_r.html#more Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/2893 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 MPs from across the Thames Valley will demand action to tackle overcrowding on trains to Paddington when they meet train bosses tomorrow (11/01/2007 , link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/mps_rail_against_the_train_bos.html#more Reading MPs Rob Wilson and Martin Salter will put their concerns about the failures of the new timetable to First Great Western director Alison Forster in the House of Commons. Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/3047 Written by Vpowell6 on Monday, 15th January 2007 I was on the new 6.25 from Reading this morning. Not only did it turn up 9 minutes late it was severely overcrowded again as it has been since the timetable change. So much for the new timetable :'( Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/3053 Written by Steve35 on Monday, 15th January 2007 [quote author=Vpowell6 link=topic=1016.msg3047#msg3047 date=1168871612] I was on the new 6.25 from Reading this morning. Re: FGW Announces Further Timetable Changes - 1016/3139 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 17th January 2007 Rail passengers have welcomed the reinstatement of Oxford-London rush-hour trains axed in timetable changes according to this article - but urged managers to make sure they arrive on time (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/oxfordpaddington_express_train.html#more link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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