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08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central Cancelled 28/12/2006 - 932/2630 Written by Lee on Thursday, 28th December 2006 From the First Great Western Website : 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 11:24 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a train fault. This train includes Dean , Dunbridge , Dilton Marsh , Keynsham , Oldfield Park & Severn Tunnel Junction among its stops. It looks like most of todays Filton Abbey Wood - Weston - super - Mare services have "bit the dust" as well. Re: 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central Cancelled 28/12/2006 - 932/2636 Written by Lee on Thursday, 28th December 2006 And theres more.... 12:00 Cardiff Central to Southampton Central due 14:35 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 18:40 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 21:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 14:12 Westbury to Southampton Central due 15:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 14:26 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 17:25 This train will be terminated at Bristol Temple Meads. It will no longer call at: Filton Abbey Wood, Patchway, Severn Tunnel Jn, Newport South Wales and Cardiff Central. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 15:39 Southampton Central to Westbury due 16:45 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. Re: 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central Cancelled 28/12/2006 - 932/2643 Written by Lee on Friday, 29th December 2006 More answers from FGW : 27 December 1706 Westbury to Southampton - cancelled due to mechanical failure 1539 Southampton to Westbury - cancelled due to unit shortages 1412 Westbury to Southampton - cancelled due to unit shortages 1522 Portsmouth to Cardiff - amended due to engineering works (bus Portsmouth to Fareham) 1330 Cardiff to Portsmouth - delayed due to points failure 1630 Cardiff to Portsmouth - delayed due to track fault 1848 Southampton to Westbury - cancelled due to unit shortages 1822 Portsmouth to Cardiff - amended due to engineering works (bus Portsmouth to Fareham) 0900 Cardiff to Westbury - cancelled due to amended timetable 0932 Southampton to Westbury - cancelled due to mechanical failure 1827 Southampton to Cheltenham - amended in revised timetable 28 December 0825 Southampton to Cardiff - cancelled due to unit shortages 1200 Cardiff to Southampton - cancelled due to unit shortages 1840 Southampton to Cardiff - cancelled due to amended timetable 1412 Westbury to Southampton - service ran and arrived on time 1426 Southampton to Cardiff - amended timetable - ran at 1416 1539 Southampton to Westbury - cancelled due to unit shortages Re: 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central Cancelled 28/12/2006 - 932/2649 Written by Graz on Friday, 29th December 2006 Today's list: 18:40 Southampton Ctl- Cardiff Ctl Cancelled 20:32 Westbury to Cardiff Ctl Cancelled 18:00 Cardiff Ctl- Westbury Cancelled 18:27 Southampton Ctl - Cheltenham Spa Cancelled 17:06 Westbury - Southampton Ctl Cancelled 14:41 Filton Abbey Wd - Weston-s-Mare Cancelled 13:40 Weston-s-Mare- Filton Abbey Wd Cancelled 15:39 Southampton Ctl- Westbury Cancelled 14:12 Westbury - Southampton Ctl Cancelled All due to a 'shortage of serviceable trains'. 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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