Minimum aspirations, Key flows

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May 18, 2012, 03:28:59 AM

Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.

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What do you think of these?

1. A service arriving in Swindon at around 08:30 and a service leaving at 17:30 for commuter traffic.

2. A Service arriving in Melksham at around 09:00 (and a few minutes later in Trowbridge) and returning at around 17:00 made it practical to commute from Swindon to both of these towns, and to travel to them from London / return afterwards and get in a whole day's work

4. A service in each direction in the middle of the day which provided half day work / leisure opportunities and long distance connection options.

5. A really early train each way, to give West Wilts passengers the ability to get to London for a full day's work by train, and also to Salisbury and beyond.

6. A through service between Chippenham and Salisbury, Swindon and Southampton.

7. A direct daytime train service between the county town (Trowbridge) and the largest town in the county (Swindon)

8. A Saturday train in the later afternoon from Swindon, suitable for shoppers and soccer fans (part of 1, 2, 3 and 7 which should include Saturday)

9. A Sunday / Bank Holiday daytime service both ways.

10. A service without change opf vehicle that does NOT exceed 30 minutes in travelling from Swindon to Melksham, 45 minutes from Swindon to Trowbridge, and 50 minutes from Swindon to Westbury, and runs within 15 minutes of its timetabled schedule more than 96% of the time.

Two interesting facts about these aspirations:

a) They could be met by a single train operating a two hourly round trip

b) They were being met by the previous operator - there's nothing new here

And I also note that Alison at First wrote to one of our posters the other day stating that they were looking to meet the needs of their customers, but on fewer resources. Which looks to me like a promise to meet the flows above ...

Here's a note from First Director level - above FGW - received yesterday. It's more interetsing in what it leaves out than what it includes. At HQ level, First refused to be drawn into offering any hope of a train service which will meet the key flows they took over last April.

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We are absolutely committed to improving reliability and will make vigorous efforts to getting better as soon as possible

The timetable is now determined. We will keep it constantly under review.

----- Original Message -----
From: Graham Ellis [graham@wellho.net]
Sent: 10/01/2007 05:06
To: Dean.Finch@firstgroup.com
Subject: Re: "TransWilts" train service - current relaibility, timing and service level

Thank you for that re-assurance, Mr Finch. Can I take it that means
that you're committed at the First group HQ to providing, as a
minimum, a service that meets the key travel needs of your 2006
customers on the TransWilts - the key items (1) to (9) I have listed -
at a reliability levels set down in association with the DfT and
others, and that you'll be fully supportive of the FGW board as they
make improvements along the lines I've outlined in (a) to (e)?

Graham Ellis
Well House Consultants, 404 The Spa, Melksham, Wilts
http://www.wellho.net graham@wellho.net
+44 (0) 1225 708225 (phone) +44 (0) 1225 707126 (fax)

Two more runied flows:

11. Really early travel from Westbury to London - used to be the 05:37. I wondered about this train once, whether it really wa used, but it WAS - I was on board with 41 other passengers last September.

12. 8 services a a day from Melksham (connections at Trowbridge or Chippenham) to Bath and Bristol. Again - a very popular journey.

And how about Trowbridge to Bath and Bristol with a change at Chippneham. Get a seat that way! Grin

. But, seriously, this one should be fixed with an appropriate direct service level

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