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Bristol December 2007 Timetable - Take Two - 4125/7742 Written by Lee on Friday, 21st September 2007 Right..... The December 2007 times now showing on the NRES Journey Planner (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/) now look far more like the drafts that I have already seen. We now have : - Hourly Portsmouth - Cardiff. - 2 - hourly Taunton - Cardiff , hourly Weston - Cardiff (rising to hourly throughout later on the day.) - Hourly Weston - Bristol Parkway. - Hourly Westbury - Gloucester with some Brighton / Southampton (missing out Dean and Mottisfont & Dunbridge) / Warminster / Weymouth / Great Malvern extensions. - Hourly Bristol - Avonmouth with some Severn Beach extensions. Also : - No 40 minute frequency Severn Beach Line service , with hourly service retimed from the draft (which were the same as now) , possibly because SBL Bristol - bound services clashed with Taunton - Cardiff services at Narroways Junction at xx24 past the hour. - Next to useless Melksham / Trans Wilts service. - The two trains per hour towards Bristol serving Stapleton Road & Lawrence Hill are only 10 minutes apart. - Apalling connections on cross - Bristol services (eg Keynsham - Patchway.) - Loss of early morning connections on cross - Bristol services (eg Nailsea - Patchway.) Re: Bristol December 2007 Timetable - Take Two - 4125/7750 Written by Lee on Saturday, 22nd September 2007 [quote author=grahame link=topic=659.msg2326#msg2326 date=1190387462]I'm trying to make some sense of the timetables / diagrams that are shown up by the latest FOI disclosure and the On Line Journey planner - making sure I get my facts right before I shoot my mouth off.[/quote] Probable rolling stock deployment , based on the unit number codes used by FGW in the Draft December 2007 Timetable : Class 143/1 - Taunton - Cardiff services. Class 143/2 - Taunton - Cardiff services. Class 143/3 - Weston - Bristol Parkway services. Class 143/4 - Swindon - Cheltenham group services. Class 143/5 - Taunton - Cardiff services. Class 143/6 - Bristol - Avonmouth / Severn Beach services. Class 143/7 - Weston - Bristol Parkway services. Class 150/1 - Taunton - Cardiff services. Class 150/2 - Taunton - Cardiff services. Class 150/3 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 150/13 - Peak Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 150/14 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 153/8 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 153/9 - Peak strengthening of Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/1 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/2 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/4 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/5 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/6 - Peak strengthening of Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/7 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/9 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/10 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/11 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/12 - Peak strengthening of Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/13 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/14 - Westbury - Gloucester group services. Class 158/15 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/16 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/17 - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/18 - Peak strengthening of Portsmouth - Cardiff services. Class 158/19 - Marked as "not used." Class 158/20 - Swindon - Cheltenham group services. Class 158 (3 - coach) - Portsmouth - Cardiff services. In the May 2007 extra Melksham trains proposal , Class 153/8 would have formed Salisbury - Swindon services , instead of forming Southampton extensions of Westbury - Gloucester group services. The proposal would also have seen some Warminster extensions of Westbury - Gloucester group services diverted to Frome , in order to provide extra services there as well. Re: Bristol December 2007 Timetable - Take Two - 4125/7784 Written by Lee on Monday, 24th September 2007 According to the 14 May 2007 FGW proposal , the following TransWilts services would have been operated from December 2007. Calling times at Melksham are shown in brackets : WESTBURY - SWINDON 0702 (0717) , 1935 (1950) SALISBURY - SWINDON 0740 (0822) , 1031 (1118) , 1331 (1418) SWINDON - WESTBURY 1842 (1908) SWINDON - SALISBURY 0619 (0644) , 0902 (0928) , 1202 (1228) , 1502 (1528) 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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