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Pewsey and Westbury may have lost out badly too ... - 355/1058 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 28th July 2006 I haven't looked at the detail yet, but ... The proposed London/Westbury off-peak hourly service will not run west of Bedwyn, allowing the reinstatement of broadly hourly services at Kintbury and Bedwyn for most of the day. The two London Paddington to Exeter St Davids semi-fast services in each direction will continue, improving connections to the West of England from Pewsey, Westbury and Castle Cary. In other words, the hourly Westbury to London semifast that we've been promised all through the re-franchise has been "pulled" at the last minute, and the semifast service from Paddinton to Exeter, re-instated after great pressure, is just 2 trains a day. Italic text quoted from [url]http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=378[/url] I wonder what other little gems are hidden in the 'final' timetable. Re: Pewsey and Westbury may have lost out badly too ... - 355/1065 Written by Sion Bretton on Friday, 28th July 2006 Just viewed and looks like a train arrives in Chippenham at 20.01 from Southampton Central (is this an error) Re: Pewsey and Westbury may have lost out badly too ... - 355/1069 Written by Lee on Friday, 28th July 2006 The timetable would indeed appear to suggest that , Sion. Re: Pewsey and Westbury may have lost out badly too ... - 355/1070 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 28th July 2006 Indeed ... I noticed that. It's not a "simple" borrow off the Stroud Valley by the looks of things ... the morning Swindon to Westbury gets to Westbury at 07:02, and the return train also leaves at 07:02. I've heard of an efficient turn around, but you have to give the passnegers time to get on and off, don't you? Re: Pewsey and Westbury may have lost out badly too ... - 355/1071 Written by Sion Bretton on Friday, 28th July 2006 It could be a direct train to bring back the Christmas Shoppers from "West Quay" 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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