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A very bad morning!! - 2352/5381 Written by Steve Bray on Thursday, 24th May 2007 Service incidents 07:58 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 09:16 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Betchworth, Dorking West, Gomshall, Chilworth, Shalford, Wanborough, Ash, Farnborough North, Sandhurst and Crowthorne. 10:38 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:32 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a train fault. 09:07 Bicester Town to Oxford due 09:32 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 08:39 Oxford to Bicester Town due 09:04 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 07:52 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street due 10:07 This train will be started from Oxford. It will no longer call at: London Paddington, Slough and Reading. This is due to a train fault. 06:09 Abergavenny to London Paddington due 09:44 This train has been diverted. It will no longer call at: Pershore, Evesham, Honeybourne, Moreton-In-Marsh, Kingham, Charlbury and Oxford. This is due to an earlier train fault. 07:28 Redhill to Reading due 08:59 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 05:35 Weymouth to Cardiff Central due 09:05 This train will be started from Westbury. It will no longer call at: Weymouth, Upwey, Dorchester West, Maiden Newton, Chetnole, Yetminster, Thornford, Yeovil Pen Mill, Castle Cary, Bruton and Frome. This is due to a train fault. 07:10 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 08:55 This train has been cancelled. 07:00 London Paddington to Oxford due 08:41 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. Customers are advised the next available local stopping service from London Paddington to Oxford is the 0730. 06:29 Frome to London Paddington due 08:18 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Thatcham, Theale and Reading West. This is due to a train fault. Customers travelling to Thatcham, Theale and Reading West are advised to travel on the 0748 departure from Newbury which arrives at Thatcham 0754, Theale 0807 and Reading West 0815. 05:11 Abergavenny to London Paddington due 08:45 This train will be started from Worcester Shrub Hill. It will no longer call at: Abergavenny, Hereford, Ledbury, Colwall, Great Malvern, Malvern Link and Worcester Foregate Street. This is due to a train fault. Customers are advised the next available service from Abergavenny to London Paddington is the 0609 departure. 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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