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CANCELLATION CHAOS! - 1041/2913 Written by WyvusArconius on Thursday, 11th January 2007 Just found on the FGW website.... 12:50pm 11/01/07 Service incidents 15:10 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington due 17:55 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a fallen tree on the line.. 12:18 London Paddington to Exeter St Davids due 14:53 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a fallen tree on the line. 13:00 Cardiff Central to Westbury due 14:50 This train has been cancelled. 11:05 London Paddington to Plymouth due 14:35 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Pewsey. This is due to a fallen tree on the line. 14:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 17:02 This train has been cancelled. 13:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 16:02 This train has been cancelled. 12:55 Cardiff Central to London Paddington due 15:02 This train has been cancelled. 15:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 17:20 This train has been cancelled. 14:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 16:20 This train has been cancelled. AND... there's more!! 27 different service amendments!! Take a look!! Daniel Re: CANCELLATION CHAOS! - 1041/2915 Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 11th January 2007 [quote author=WyvusArconius link=topic=1041.msg2913#msg2913 date=1168519914] Service incidents 11:05 London Paddington to Plymouth due 14:35 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Pewsey. This is due to a fallen tree on the line. [/quote] and also: 12:07 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington due 14:52 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Pewsey, Hungerford, Newbury, Thatcham and Theale. This is due to a fallen tree on the line. I wonder if any trains have been diverted via Melksham? Re: CANCELLATION CHAOS! - 1041/2916 Written by WyvusArconius on Thursday, 11th January 2007 Surely those services would be HST's? Would they send those down the Melksham Branch? Re: CANCELLATION CHAOS! - 1041/2918 Written by Graz on Thursday, 11th January 2007 The Cardiff to Paddington services were all cancelled due to flooding between Bristol Parkway to Swindon. The remaining Swansea to Paddington services were all diverted via Bath Spa (not Melksham unfourtunately) and called additionally at Patchway. Re: CANCELLATION CHAOS! - 1041/2921 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 11th January 2007 [quote author=WyvusArconius link=topic=1041.msg2916#msg2916 date=1168523386] Surely those services would be HST's? Would they send those down the Melksham Branch? [/quote] I suspect that the 11:05 from Paddington ("not stopping Pewsey") came via Melksham. We're very used indeed to local train sbeing cancelled whenever First wants to send its expresses our way, and feels that cancelling our trains is better that holding an express up for a few minutes. It's always been that way - even when Wessex trains ran the local franchise. Of course, what's changed now is that there are so few local trains that they're not there to BE in the way. 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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