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Late night cancellations on Sunday 14th January 2006 - 1071/3027 Written by streety7 on Sunday, 14th January 2007 From the FGW website 22:55 Fareham to Westbury due 00:20 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 22:10 Westbury to Taunton due 22:57 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of serviceable trains. I can't belive that services run this late on a Sunday? I can't believe that they have to cancel them aswell... I really can't see why the units are leased to provide a service this late, and the DfT would rather lease units for an uncrowded (or empty) service at 11 o clock on a Sunday night rather than other, busier peak days and times... unless someone can prove me wrong? Also an alteration for tomorrow morning already: 07:18 Plymouth to Penzance due 09:27 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Devonport, Saltash and St Germans. Ouch. Those folk especially the Saltash people won't be very happy. Re: Late night cancellations on Sunday 14th January 2006 - 1071/3028 Written by Steve35 on Monday, 15th January 2007 [quote author=Chris Street link=topic=1071.msg3027#msg3027 date=1168815938] From the FGW website 22:55 Fareham to Westbury due 00:20 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. I can't belive that services run this late on a Sunday? I can't believe that they have to cancel them aswell... I really can't see why the units are leased to provide a service this late, and the DfT would rather lease units for an uncrowded (or empty) service at 11 o clock on a Sunday night rather than other, busier peak days and times... unless someone can prove me wrong? [/quote] The 22:55 Fareham to Westbury is worked by the same unit that did the 19:05 Cardiff-Fareham which probably *is* a busy train. Several units spend the night at Westbury so the 22:55 is just a way of getting the unit back there. Better to have it available to passengers than run it empty all the way. Re: Late night cancellations on Sunday 14th January 2006 - 1071/3039 Written by Lee on Monday, 15th January 2007 [quote author=Chris Street link=topic=1071.msg3027#msg3027 date=1168815938]Also an alteration for tomorrow morning already: 07:18 Plymouth to Penzance due 09:27 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Devonport, Saltash and St Germans. Ouch. Those folk especially the Saltash people won't be very happy. [/quote] From the Saltash Rail Users Group website (link below) : http://www.srug.org.uk/ What do do if you are stranded 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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