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18 Oct 6pm: Cancellations, short formations, delays, buffet facilities - 4480/8260 Written by Steve Bray on Thursday, 18th October 2007 18:14 Guildford to Reading due 18:52 An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 18:14 Guildford to Reading due 18:52 run on 18/10/07. 17:26 Gatwick Airport to Reading due 18:52 This train will be terminated at Redhill. It will no longer call at: Reigate, Dorking Deepdene, Dorking West, Guildford, Ash, North Camp, Blackwater, Wokingham and Reading. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 17:21 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads due 19:40 This train will be started from Yeovil Pen Mill. It will no longer call at: Weymouth, Dorchester West, Maiden Newton, Chetnole, Yetminster and Thornford. This is due to a delay on a previous journey. 16:30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington due 18:15 This train has been revised. It will no longer call at: Bath Spa and Chippenham. This is due to a broken down train. 16:40 Westbury to Weymouth due 18:01 This train will be terminated at Yeovil Pen Mill. It will no longer call at: Yetminster, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West and Weymouth. 19:04 Reading to Shalford due 19:54 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 16:58 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 19:32 This train will be started from Worcester Foregate Street. It will no longer call at: Great Malvern and Malvern Link. This is due to a delay on a previous journey. 14:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 17:49 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Freshford, Avoncliff and Bradford-On-Avon. This is due to an earlier train fault. 17:40 Guildford to Reading due 18:20 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 14:51 Weymouth to Cardiff Central due 18:18 This train has been revised. This train will run short formed with 1 carriages between Weymouth and Bristol Temple Meads. 16:02 Cheltenham Spa to Taunton due 18:30 This train has been revised. This train will run short formed with 3 carriages. 18:03 London Paddington to Penzance due 23:08 This train has been revised. No catering available between Plymouth and Penzance. 17:35 Penzance to London Paddington due 23:36 This train has been revised. No catering available between Penzance and Plymouth. Re: 18 Oct 6pm: Cancellations, short formations, delays, buffet facilities - 4480/8280 Written by Lee on Friday, 19th October 2007 Its no better today (19/10/2007) : 16:00 Cardiff Central to Weymouth due 19:27 This train has been started from Bristol Temple Meads.It will no longer call at: Cardiff Central, Newport South Wales, Severn Tunnel Jn, Patchway and Filton Abbey Wood.This is due to an earlier train fault. 16:15 London Paddington to Swansea due 19:26 This train has been revised.It will no longer call at: Reading and Didcot Parkway.This is due to a train fault. 18:27 Southampton Central to Cheltenham Spa due 21:27 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 17:28 Cheltenham Spa to Westbury due 19:25 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 17:06 Westbury to Southampton Central due 18:18 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 16:44 Penzance to Exeter St Davids due 19:46 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 14:41 Plymouth to Penzance due 16:36 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 15:00 Plymouth to London Paddington due 18:20 This train has been revised. Pullman service not available. Buffet service only. 12:05 London Paddington to Penzance due 17:10 This train has been revised.It will additionally call at: Hayle. 16:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 19:49 This train will run short formed with 2 carriages.This is due to an earlier train fault. 15:52 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa due 17:01 This train has been cancelled.This is due to a train fault. 13:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 16:42 This train will be started from Fareham.It will no longer call at: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton and Cosham.This is due to an earlier train fault. 15:39 Southampton Central to Westbury due 16:45 This train has been cancelled.This is due to an earlier train fault. 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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