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Another bad day 04/01/07 - 977/2725 Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 4th January 2007 Those on the evening commute from Swindon to West Wilts face buses again! 17:28 Cheltenham Spa to Westbury due 19:24 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 15:52 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa due 17:01 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 18:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads due 20:17 This train will be cancelled. This is due to an earlier train fault. 12:02 Cheltenham Spa to Taunton due 14:14 This train will be started from Gloucester. It will no longer call at: Cheltenham Spa. This is due to a delay on a previous journey. 12:00 Cardiff Central to Brighton due 16:12 This train will be started from Bristol Temple Meads. It will no longer call at: Cardiff Central, Newport South Wales, Severn Tunnel Jn and Filton Abbey Wood. This is due to an earlier train fault. 13:32 Westbury to Cardiff Central due 15:24 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a train fault. 17:30 Newton Abbot to Gunnislake due 19:01 This train will be started from Plymouth. It will no longer call at: Newton Abbot, Totnes and Ivybridge. 17:25 Gunnislake to Newquay due 20:18 This train will be terminated at Plymouth. It will no longer call at: St Budeaux Ferry Road, Saltash, St Germans, Menheniot, Liskeard, Bodmin Parkway, Lostwithiel, Par, Luxulyan, Bugle, Roche, St Columb Road, Quintrell Downs and Newquay. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 14:52 Newquay to Gunnislake due 17:20 This train will be started from Plymouth. It will no longer call at: Newquay, St Columb Road, Roche, Bugle, Luxulyan, Par, Lostwithiel, Bodmin Parkway and Liskeard. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 12:48 Newton Abbot to Gunnislake due 14:18 This train will be started from Plymouth. It will no longer call at: Newton Abbot, Totnes and Ivybridge. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains. 11:25 Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington due 13:32 This train will be started from Evesham. It will no longer call at: Worcester Shrub Hill and Pershore. 13:06 Marlow to Bourne End due 13:27 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 12:37 Bourne End to Marlow due 12:59 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable. 13:46 Cheltenham Spa to Swindon due 14:51 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a lack of servicable trains. 11:52 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa due 12:54 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a lack of servicable trains. Re: Another bad day 04/01/07 - 977/2726 Written by paulsouthwales on Thursday, 4th January 2007 Whilst I dont commute daily by train, I do use the train several times a week in South Wales, and often use the Wessex Mainline down to Portsmouth, Southampton, Bristol and Bath. However, having read the forum and looking at the service updates on the FGW website, I dont have any confidence at all that should I need to use the train between Cardiff and Bristol/Bath etc that it would turn up! This is seriously making me consider using the Car and have to pay more as a result of the increased Severn Bridge tolls and the cost of petrol! This is a very sad situation to be in, in 2007, especially when we are all being told to get off the roads, and use public transport. I dont remember things being this bad under Wessex Trains. How long is the current situation going to go on for? It is really deeply disappointing and worrying. Would things be any different though if another bidder had won the Greater Western Franchise though, or is the franchise specification solely to blame?! Re: Another bad day 04/01/07 - 977/2727 Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 4th January 2007 [quote author=paulsouthwales link=topic=977.msg2726#msg2726 date=1167922002] I dont have any confidence at all Re: Another bad day 04/01/07 - 977/2730 Written by streety7 on Thursday, 4th January 2007 So that means the 1908 service today has gone then... well it doesn't surprise me that it wouldn't be long before a cancellation appeared... [quote]17:28 Cheltenham Spa to Westbury due 19:24 This train has been cancelled. This is due to a shortage of servicable trains.[/quote] At least they're telling the truth with the reasons though... 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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