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Wednesday 29 August - 3714/7228 Written by Steve Bray on Thursday, 30th August 2007 A fairly bleak situation this morning as this shows taken from FGW's website. Service incidents 09:10 Oxford to London Paddington due 10:11 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Didcot Parkway. 09:55 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:30 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Radley and Culham. 09:02 Newton Abbot to Plymouth due 09:47 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Newton Abbot. This is due to a delay on a previous journey. 09:21 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:00 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Oxford, Radley, Culham, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring & Streatley, Pangbourne and Tilehurst. 06:04 Penzance to Newton Abbot due 08:53 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Newton Abbot. This is due to a delay on a previous journey. 11:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads due 13:10 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 07:45 London Paddington to Swansea due 10:45 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Didcot Parkway. 08:45 London Paddington to Twyford due 09:35 This train has been cancelled. 08:07 Reading to Basingstoke due 08:31 This train has been cancelled. 08:37 Basingstoke to Reading due 09:00 This train has been cancelled. 08:00 Swansea to London Paddington due 11:01 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 07:15 London Paddington to Cardiff Central due 09:22 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a train fault. 07:34 Gunnislake to Newquay due 10:08 This train will be terminated at Plymouth. It will no longer call at: Gunnislake, Calstock, Saltash, St Germans, Menheniot, Par, Luxulyan, Bugle, Roche, St Columb Road, Quintrell Downs and Newquay. This is due to a train fault. Road replacement transport will be provided. 07:00 London Paddington to Oxford due 08:41 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring & Streatley, Cholsey, Didcot Parkway, Radley and Oxford. This is due to a train fault. 10:38 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:32 This train has been cancelled. 05:05 Penzance to London Paddington due 10:01 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Liskeard, Plymouth, Newton Abbot, Exeter St Davids, Taunton, Reading and London Paddington. This is due to a train fault. 07:30 Carmarthen to London Paddington due 11:27 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Carmarthen, Ferryside, Kidwelly, Pembrey & Burry Port and Llanelli. Re: Wednesday 29 August - 3714/7230 Written by Lee on Thursday, 30th August 2007 Things are not much better today (30/08/2007.) From the FGW website : 12:35 Newquay to Plymouth due 14:25 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Newquay, Quintrell Downs, St Columb Road, Roche, Bugle and Luxulyan. Road replacement transport will be provided between Newquay and Par. 11:24 Par to Newquay due 12:14 This train has been cancelled. Road replacement transport will be provided. 10:18 Newquay to Par due 11:03 This train has been cancelled. Road replacement transport will be provided. 09:10 Oxford to London Paddington due 10:11 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Didcot Parkway. 09:55 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:30 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Radley and Culham. 09:21 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:00 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Oxford, Radley, Culham, Didcot Parkway, Cholsey, Goring & Streatley, Pangbourne and Tilehurst. 11:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads due 13:10 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 07:45 London Paddington to Swansea due 10:45 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Didcot Parkway. 09:31 Bristol Parkway to London Paddington due 11:01 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 10:38 Oxford to London Paddington due 11:32 This train has been cancelled. 07:30 Carmarthen to London Paddington due 11:27 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Carmarthen, Ferryside, Kidwelly, Pembrey & Burry Port and Llanelli. Re: Wednesday 29 August - 3714/7236 Written by Steve Bray on Thursday, 30th August 2007 Sorry, Lee. My title should have said Thursday 30 August. (Arrived at work, and forgot to change the date on my calendar) SJB Re: Wednesday 29 August - 3714/7241 Written by Lee on Thursday, 30th August 2007 In other words , they are all TODAY'S cancellations. 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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