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Dean & Dunbridge Cancellation 20/12/2006 - 888/2546 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 20th December 2006 From the First Great Western Website : 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 11:24 This train has been restarted from Salisbury. It will no longer call at: Southampton Central, Romsey, Dunbridge and Dean. This is due to an earlier train fault. Re: Dean & Dunbridge Cancellation 20/12/2006 - 888/2552 Written by Graz on Wednesday, 20th December 2006 The 08:22 Portsmouth hbr-Cardiff ctl service called additionally at Dean and Dunbridge today to compensate for this, which was a good decision. But it still no doubt left passengers quite delayed. Dean & Dunbridge "Revision" 21/12/2006 - 888/2566 Written by Lee on Thursday, 21st December 2006 06:50 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 10:40 This train will be restarted from Bristol Temple Meads. It will no longer call at: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton, Cosham, Portchester, Fareham, Swanwick, Netley, Woolston, St Denys, Southampton Central, Romsey, Dunbridge, Dean, Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-On-Avon, Bath Spa and Keynsham. This is due to a train fault. Re: Dean & Dunbridge Cancellations & "Revisions" 22/12/2006 - 888/2576 Written by Lee on Friday, 22nd December 2006 From the First Great Western Website : 09:32 Southampton Central to Westbury due 10:39 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 12:32 Southampton Central to Westbury due 13:39 This train will be cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 09:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 12:41 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Dunbridge, Dean and Dilton Marsh. At this rate , they may as well include Dean , Dunbridge and Dilton Marsh in an improved Portsmouth - Cardiff timetable....... http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Suggested%20Portsmouth%20-%20Rhoose%20timetable.pdf ;D ;D Re: Dean & Dunbridge Cancellations & "Revisions" 22/12/2006 - 888/2584 Written by Lee on Friday, 22nd December 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=888.msg2576#msg2576 date=1166783569]From the First Great Western Website : 09:32 Southampton Central to Westbury due 10:39 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 12:32 Southampton Central to Westbury due 13:39 This train will be cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 09:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 12:41 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Dunbridge, Dean and Dilton Marsh. At this rate , they may as well include Dean , Dunbridge and Dilton Marsh in an improved Portsmouth - Cardiff timetable....... http://www.shinewithstyle.co.uk/literature/Suggested%20Portsmouth%20-%20Rhoose%20timetable.pdf ;D ;D[/quote] 12:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 15:42 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Dunbridge, Dean and Dilton Marsh. A couple for you , Graz : 14:00 Cardiff Central to Weymouth due 17:12 This train will be terminated at Bristol Temple Meads. It will no longer call at: Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Bath Spa, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-On-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury, Frome, Bruton, Castle Cary, Yeovil Pen Mill, Yetminster, Maiden Newton, Dorchester West and Weymouth. This is due to a shortage of traincrew.. Road transport will be provided. 17:21 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads due 19:39 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of traincrew.. Road transport will be provided as far as Westbury. 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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