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Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1396 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 6th September 2006 Here is a quote from the Western Greyhound website. "Some changes from Sunday 3 September 2006 Following the withdrawal of First Re: Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1397 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 6th September 2006 Well ... it looks like passengers from Newquay have bus services to St Austell in the rush hours and trains to Par off peak, giving them (in combination) the first leg of long distance public transport from early in the morning through to mid evening. I don't know Newquay ... perhaps that's a good way for 'em to do it ... but I would think it would be more appropriate in most places to provide a higher capacity and faster train at time of heavy demand such as 6 to 9 am and 3 to 6 pm, and buses to cover the lighter periods. Re: Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1398 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 6th September 2006 Its not just the peak buses that run via St Austell Railway Station , Graham. There are evening buses too (also serving Bugle & Roche , link below.) http://www.westerngreyhound.com/2006/528.pdf Here is the Par - Newquay rail service from December 2006 , over half of which runs in the middle of the day or the evening , when passenger demand is likely to be lower (link below.) http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Documents/Custom/Rev%20Dec%20TTs/SX%20-%20Par%20to%20Newquay.pdf Do you think that the rail service will survive until next summer , Graham? Re: Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1400 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 6th September 2006 Western Greyhound , along with Truronian were pioneers of the "virtual branch line" concept. Here are a couple of links. http://www.truronian.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=194 http://www.westerngreyhound.co.uk/2006/555.pdf As you can see from the current First Great Western timetable (link below) "Combined Rail&Bus tickets are available to 'Padstow Bus Re: Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1401 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 7th September 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=473.msg1400#msg1400 date=1157555849] As you can see from the current First Great Western timetable (link below) "Combined Rail&Bus tickets are available to 'Padstow Bus Re: Newquay Rail - Replacement Bus Service? - 473/1402 Written by Lee on Thursday, 7th September 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=473.msg1401#msg1401 date=1157595932] [quote author=Lee link=topic=473.msg1400#msg1400 date=1157555849] As you can see from the current First Great Western timetable (link below) "Combined Rail&Bus tickets are available to 'Padstow Bus 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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