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Central Trains Launch New Hednesford - Birmingham Service - 4525/8318 Written by Lee on Monday, 22nd October 2007 Passenger pressure has led to rail officials running an extra service for people from parts of Staffordshire and the Black Country (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7056064.stm Central Trains said that the 0736 BST service from Hednesford to Birmingham New Street was needed to cope with a rise in passenger numbers. Officials said feedback they had received from passengers told them the extra service was necessary. Managing director Steve Banaghan said: "The views and suggestions of our passengers are an important factor in developing our timetable." "I am pleased that we have been able to respond positively to passenger feedback and reinstate this service." Re: Central Trains Launch New Hednesford - Birmingham Service - 4525/8336 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 24th October 2007 [quote author=Lee link=topic=4525.msg8318#msg8318 date=1193059822] Central Trains said that the 0736 BST service from Hednesford to Birmingham New Street was needed to cope with a rise in passenger numbers. Officials said feedback they had received from passengers told them the extra service was necessary. Managing director Steve Banaghan said: "The views and suggestions of our passengers are an important factor in developing our timetable." "I am pleased that we have been able to respond positively to passenger feedback and reinstate this service." [/quote] I wish that First Great Western could repond positively to passenger feedback and reinstate the TransWilts services they cut last December. Witness the huge rise in passnger numbers we had up to theat point, and the fact that we generated more feedback than anoyone had previously done for a domestic public transport issue on the e-petiton site! Is this story from a different country, Lee? I know it isn't, but it might as well be! Re: Central Trains Launch New Hednesford - Birmingham Service - 4525/8340 Written by Industry Insider on Thursday, 25th October 2007 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=4525.msg8336#msg8336 date=1193257950] [quote author=Lee link=topic=4525.msg8318#msg8318 date=1193059822] Central Trains said that the 0736 BST service from Hednesford to Birmingham New Street was needed to cope with a rise in passenger numbers. Officials said feedback they had received from passengers told them the extra service was necessary. Managing director Steve Banaghan said: "The views and suggestions of our passengers are an important factor in developing our timetable." "I am pleased that we have been able to respond positively to passenger feedback and reinstate this service." [/quote] Is this story from a different country, Lee? I know it isn't, but it might as well be! [/quote] It is from a different part of the country though, and although Hednesford itself only has a population of 6500 it's more suburban than urban pretty much all the way from there to Birmingham via places such as Bloxwich (40000) and Walsall (175000) so it's like comparing chalk and cheese really. You can be sure that what Steve Banaghan is really saying is that 'we can millk enough extra revenue out of running another train to easily cover its cost'. 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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