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December 2008 Timetables!! - 4126/7743 Written by Lee on Friday, 21st September 2007 While FGW dither over the December 2007 timetable , why not feast your eyes on the link below. http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/wcml/wcms2008timetables/ Re: December 2008 Timetables!! - 4126/7744 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 21st September 2007 I've had a quick peek at those ... looking up a couple of towns that I've worked in and become quite familiar with in the past - Atherstone and Stone. Re: December 2008 Timetables!! - 4126/7895 Written by Lee on Saturday, 29th September 2007 Not so good for Nuneaton passengers , for whom the new timeables mean a 70% reduction in fast inter-city trains (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7016649.stm Virgin Trains' stops at Nuneaton station will be cut from around 35 a day to 10 and there will be no fast service to London outside peak times. Re: December 2008 Timetables!! - 4126/8583 Written by Lee on Monday, 12th November 2007 Passenger Focus are organising a conference in Preston regarding this (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7088658.stm More on the December 2008 WCML timetables in the link below. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=884.msg3847#msg3847 Re: December 2008 Timetables!! - 4126/12684 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 [quote author=Lee link=topic=4126.msg7895#msg7895 date=1191076520] Not so good for Nuneaton passengers , for whom the new timeables mean a 70% reduction in fast inter-city trains (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7016649.stm Virgin Trains' stops at Nuneaton station will be cut from around 35 a day to 10 and there will be no fast service to London outside peak times. [/quote] Virgin Trains' decision to cut its off-peak services from Nuneaton into London could be taken to a judicial review (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7521045.stm Nuneaton and Bedworth Council meets later to decide whether to take action over the cuts. 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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