Save the Train forum

Dedicate to campaigning to retain an appropriate "TransWilts" passenger train service ... Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury - Dilton Marsh - Warminster - Salisbury ... and to other services too

THIS FORUM IS NOW A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE. Please use our Coffeeshop Forum for new posts

link to main site		Save the Melksham Train
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
May 18, 2012, 03:27:49 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.
7889 Posts in 5009 Topics by 96834 Members
Latest Member: rowdvjtgPA
* Home Help Search Calendar Login Register
+  Save the Train
|-+  General Discussion
| |-+  Greater Western
| | |-+  BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn		 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn  (Read 3305 times)
Nick Field
Global Moderator
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 423


View Profile
BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« on: January 09, 2007, 06:42:06 PM »
Just shown

First Great Western make a timetable u-turn. Changes to nine services
Increases in services to stop overcrowding and increases in carriages
0647 Frome to Cardiff Central to get two extra coaches
Passengers interviewed said they were 'distrustfull' and will 'believe it when we see it'
FGW are increasing staff numbers at its Bristol maintence depot
Andrew Griffiths said 'In two weeks time everything will be ok'

Hopefully someone will be able to post up the clip!
Logged
WyvusArconius
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 81


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2007, 07:09:48 PM »
Which services ar FGW U turning over?
Logged
Nick Field
Global Moderator
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 423


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2007, 10:22:09 PM »
I think that was just the headline they used.  No specific services other than the 0647 from Frome were mentioned which will get the extra coaches
Logged
Ruthg
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 57


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2007, 01:26:27 PM »
I've also posted this on more train less strain. See

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6248061.stm

 
Logged
bubblecat
Jr. Member
**
Offline Offline

Posts: 18


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2007, 10:25:12 PM »
Apparently this morning the trains did not run properly - I caught a lift, so was not there to see the drama unfold. It prompted the FGW problems to be tops of the GWR news this afternoon where they announced the planned demonstrations.

I would imagine that extra carriages would help people in Bath and Bristol who work in Cardiff. Doesn't do much for us who work in Bath and Bristol and who travel on the 8.05am from Frome. It's this train where people have been left standing at Bradford on Avon and where the fainting inciident occurred a couple of weeks before xmas!
Logged
James
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 89


View Profile WWW
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2007, 09:27:22 PM »
One of the problems with the 0647, is as you may have noticed, it is a ghost train as in there is no refrence to it in the railway computers


TRUST & CIS & PIS & NRES all state there is no serivce!
Logged
Regards

James - Full on Pacer Fan
Max
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2007, 09:28:21 PM »
I have just read the story 'Extra trains to ease overcrowding' at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6248061.stm. I am lucky in that my morning service will now stop where I want it to. But I take offence when FGW say that they are laying on additional services. In this particluar case, they are just giving back what I had just over a month ago.
Logged
Graham Ellis
Administrator
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2062


View Profile
Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2007, 07:25:01 AM »
Quote from: Max on January 11, 2007, 09:28:21 PM
But I take offence when FGW say that they are laying on additional services. In this particluar case, they are just giving back what I had just over a month ago.

I'm afraid that it's a fairly standard negotiating tactic to ask for (or in this case for FGW just take) more than you can expect to get away with, then retrench back towards the original position with a great marketing hype and hoping for great praise and glory.

Let's see ... five years ago, Bath to Oxford was a regular, hourly, direct service.  You say "morning sorted" but, alas, you're not back to the quality of service you had in 2002, are you?  Yet hasn't train ridership grown dramatically in that time, so couldn't you have hoped for something better than 2002 by now?
Logged
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Save the Train | Powered by SMF 1.0.5.
© 2001-2005, Lewis Media. All Rights Reserved. 		Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.072 seconds with 19 queries.