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Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3086 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 These include one from Alison Forster (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/01/only_the_government_can_overha.html#more Quotes : "Sir, FGW has 130 carriages on its fleet of West country regional trains and this is three fewer than we inherited from the previous franchisee, Wessex Trains." "We are due to return carriages to the train-leasing companies but we will not do so until local performance and seating capacity issues have been resolved. To run the new timetable, we need 108 carriages but we will have a fleet of 112." Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3093 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 Come Alison come over to Bristol Temple Meads were you once work and see the trains for yourself between 5pm & 7pm Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3097 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 So First are hoping for an availability of between 96% and 97% from the units. Is this practical? I've seen 84% quoted elsewhere, haven't I, and I think 90%? 4 spare carriages beween Great Malvern and St Ives, Brighton and Rhoose seems optimistic. Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3100 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=1088.msg3097#msg3097 date=1168960355]So First are hoping for an availability of between 96% and 97% from the units. Is this practical? Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3101 Written by Graz on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 ^ Exactly. I feel it's more about cost-cutting and scraping together every penny possible that seems more important than ensuring good reliability and scope for improvements. In my opinion, the more trains FGW get rid of, the more likely it is that we'll see severe overcrowding, cancellations and 'revisions' when they run out of units = more complaints, and the less likely we'll see any form of decent timetable improvements. Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3103 Written by Steve35 on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 96.4% is clearly not practical. I think she just didn't explain herself very well. Assuming 84% availability (for argument's sake) I think she meant to say: "To run the new timetable, we need 91 carriages in traffic. Assuming 84% availability this means we need a fleet of 108 carriages, but we will in fact have a fleet of 112." Re: Letters To The Times (16/01/2007) - 1088/3106 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 I have e-mailed her for clarification. 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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