Many thanks for your wishes.   The Wessex Trains routes south through Westbury have been suffering a lack of resources - it seems that there's been too much traffic, too few coaches and too few train crews for the growing traffic ... so that service justification is NOT based on what makes economic sense, but on what they've managed to provide.

With an appropriate number of trains and crews, a much more reliable service could be provided and - as far as I can see from information avaialble - it would be profitable too, and traffic would continue to grow.  But investment has been sadly lacking - after all, why SHOULD the previous operator have invested for the long term when they only had a quite short term contract to operate the line(s)?

On "The Waterloo" ... wouldn't it be an excellent solution if the Bristol to Portmouth train was reliable and not overcrowded and connected well every hour at Salisbury?  At present, you've got two trains running from Bristol to Salisbury within a few minutes of each other.  My only fear of using a connection rather than a through train is that it stifles any competition ....