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Live Updates 1 - 3 of 25 - 947/2659 Written by streety7 on Saturday, 30th December 2006 How can there be so many updates? Something must be seriously wrong, before the new timetable the most I remember seeing would be about 5 or 6 with the odd double figures if there was a line problem, but this is ridiculous 18:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 21:49 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Severn Tunnel Jn, Patchway, Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-On-Avon, Dean and Dunbridge. 10:38 Taunton to Great Malvern due 13:35 This train has been restarted from Bristol Temple Meads. It will no longer call at: Taunton, Bridgwater, Highbridge & Burnham, Weston-Super-Mare, Worle, Yatton and Nailsea & Backwell. This is due to an earlier train fault. 12:05 Oxford to London Paddington due 12:59 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 11:03 Great Malvern to London Paddington due 13:32 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 10:22 London Paddington to Oxford due 11:17 This train has been cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 12:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 15:49 This train will be started from Newport South Wales. It will additionally call at: Severn Tunnel Jn, Bradford-On-Avon, Dean and Dunbridge. It will no longer call at: Cardiff Central. 13:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 16:41 This train will be started from Southampton Central. It will no longer call at: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth & Southsea, Fratton, Cosham and Fareham. This is due to an earlier train fault. 13:22 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central due 16:41 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Dunbridge and Dean. 10:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour due 13:49 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Severn Tunnel Jn, Patchway, Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Avoncliff, Bradford-On-Avon, Dean and Dunbridge. 13:38 Taunton to Cheltenham Spa due 15:48 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Weston Milton, Parson Street and Bedminster. 12:02 Cheltenham Spa to Taunton due 14:07 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Bedminster, Parson Street and Weston Milton. 11:38 Taunton to Cheltenham Spa due 13:48 This train has been revised. It will additionally call at: Weston Milton, Parson Street and Bedminster. 14:16 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 17:25 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 12:00 Cardiff Central to Brighton due 16:15 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 12:50 Bristol Temple Meads to Weston-super-Mare due 13:26 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 12:44 Penzance to Plymouth due 14:40 This train has been reinstated. 12:50 Bristol Temple Meads to Weston-super-Mare due 13:26 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 14:12 Westbury to Southampton Central due 15:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 12:31 Southampton Central to Westbury due 13:39 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 11:41 Weston-super-Mare to Bristol Temple Meads due 12:17 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 10:40 Filton Abbey Wood to Weston-super-Mare due 11:25 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 10:00 Cardiff Central to Southampton Central due 13:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 08:25 Southampton Central to Cardiff Central due 11:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 10:00 Plymouth to Penzance due 12:02 This train has been reinstated. 11:06 Westbury to Southampton Central due 12:23 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. Probably more to come later I guess.. Re: Live Updates 1 - 3 of 25 - 947/2660 Written by Lee on Saturday, 30th December 2006 Train services between Par and Newquay are being disrupted due to a landslip in the Goonbarrow area. Engineers are working as fast as possible to restore services to normal. Short notice cancellations can be expected. The railway line is expected to be closed for the rest of the day. Road Transport will be in operation. 17:08 Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach due 17:45 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 18:22 Severn Beach to Bristol Temple Meads due 19:00 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. Re: Live Updates 1 - 3 of 25 - 947/2663 Written by Sion Bretton on Saturday, 30th December 2006 With all these trains being cancelled they must have a very large fine bill. what is the fine for each train cancelled? 8) Re: Live Updates 1 - 3 of 25 - 947/2668 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Sunday, 31st December 2006 [quote author=Sion Bretton link=topic=947.msg2663#msg2663 date=1167500754] With all 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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