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BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2843 Written by Nick Field on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 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! Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2844 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 Which services ar FGW U turning over? Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2853 Written by Nick Field on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 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 Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2874 Written by Ruthg on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 I've also posted this on more train less strain. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6248061.stm Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2899 Written by bubblecat on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 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! Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2931 Written by James on Thursday, 11th January 2007 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! Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2932 Written by Max on Thursday, 11th January 2007 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. Re: BBC Points West 09/01/06 - First Great Western make a timetable u-turn - 1020/2936 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 12th January 2007 [quote author=Max link=topic=1020.msg2932#msg2932 date=1168550901]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.[/quote] 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. 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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