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Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2267 Written by Lee on Friday, 8th December 2006 In keeping with the new Save The Train policy , all non - Melksham related timetable proposals will now be dealt with through this thread. Links : Portsmouth - Cardiff Airport. http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Suggested%20Portsmouth%20-%20Rhoose%20timetable.pdf Weymouth - Severn Beach. http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Suggested%20Weymouth%20-%20Severn%20Beach%20timetable.pdf Greater Bristol Metro. http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Draft%20Greater%20Bristol%20Metro%20Proposals.pdf The development process for the Melksham proposals (link below.) will be overseen by Graham. Chris - can you assist as per his instructions? http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=766.msg2221#msg2221 As for the non - Melksham related timetable proposals , could you possibly begin development on a Bicester - Bristol timetable including the London - Bristol / Cheltenham Spa / Wales "hypothetical" timings? Allow yourself 4 units & take a "blank - sheet" approach. For example , if (say) extra Oxford - Banbury services can be included , feel free to add them in. Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2269 Written by streety7 on Friday, 8th December 2006 Lee, I now know where I'm standing - I got a bit confused at first, but now have done Graham's part and posted that on his side of the proposals. As for the Bicester - Bristol timetable, I take it we are still using the same 4 units we were using before (2x158 freed from London pattern and 2x158 swapped from 2x166 going into storage)? And also when you say for example if extra Oxford - Banbury services can be included feel free to add them in do you mean Bicester or actually Banbury? Also, would the Bicester - Bristol timetable extend anywhere else southward, or would that be it? Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2270 Written by Lee on Friday, 8th December 2006 Same 4 units. A "blank sheet" approach means that you have free rein to take the service where you like (Im after innovative ideas on this - all welcome.) Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2271 Written by streety7 on Saturday, 9th December 2006 OK, will give it a go over the weekend, and will post when I have some rough ideas. ;D Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2272 Written by Lee on Saturday, 9th December 2006 Thanks Chris. To all - I should add that southwards extensions are ok but not including the Melksham line , which is not the remit of this section. Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2273 Written by Lee on Saturday, 9th December 2006 Quote from Andrew Griffiths : Re: Timetable Proposals - Non Melksham - 782/2390 Written by streety7 on Wednesday, 13th December 2006 Slight changes have been implemented on the Greater Bristol Metro draft timetable, see below: > Cross Country trains call at Filton Abbey Wood, increasing the tph at Filton Abbey to 8 trains per hour > The path of the northbound Avonmouth to Bristol Parkway freight train has been retimed to 1 minute earlier throughout its journey. > Stations between and including Montpellier and St. Andrew's Road have updated status as having 2tph. Link --> [url]http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Draft Greater Bristol Metro Proposals.pdf[/url] 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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