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Class 158 3 - Coach Deployment - 814/2366 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 12th December 2006 James , Based on what I saw on Monday , I reckon that FGW are planning to deploy a 3 - coach Class 158 unit as follows : 0730 Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour 1122 Portsmouth Harbour - Cardiff Central 1500 Cardiff Central - Westbury 1655 Westbury - Bristol Temple Meads 1748 Bristol Temple Meads - Weymouth Is there any way you can find out if this is the case? Re: Class 158 3 - Coach Deployment - 814/2367 Written by James on Tuesday, 12th December 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=814.msg2366#msg2366 date=1165941860] James , Based on what I saw on Monday , I reckon that FGW are planning to deploy a 3 - coach Class 158 unit as follows : 0730 Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour 1122 Portsmouth Harbour - Cardiff Central 1500 Cardiff Central - Westbury 1655 Westbury - Bristol Temple Meads 1748 Bristol Temple Meads - Weymouth Is there any way you can find out if this is the case? [/quote] I doubt it, as the unit would still need to get back to Bristol, but I will try & find out morre Re: Class 158 3 - Coach Deployment - 814/2368 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 12th December 2006 Thanks James. I also wondered how it would get back from Weymouth , but based on the train strengthening talk / documents Ive come across , plus observation , I think that its worth looking into. Re: Class 158 3 - Coach Deployment - 814/2454 Written by Lee on Saturday, 16th December 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=825.msg2442#msg2442 date=1166203617] Just back from TROWBRIDGE, where I dropped off my customers ... destination Bangor, North Wales; no suitable service available this week from Melksham. 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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