I'm a regular commuter on the Chippenham to Paddington stretch - doing it everyday for the past 3 years, and recently the service has just hit rock bottom.

In the last week alone we've had cancellations, lack of train crew, lack of staff, lack of rolling stock, the train information boards saying that a train stops at a station only for the on board staff saying it doesn't leading to the train manager being under siege to stop at the advertised station. Because of service cut backs it used to be easy to get a Swansea train, change at Swindon or Didcot and use the Oxford to Bristol service, but now its an extra 30 minute to a hour delay just to get home.

Also a bone of contention is that my season ticket is a whooping £8K just to commute in the peak period between those two stations for a shoddy service. Is it time for passengers to boycott FGW by having a strike with massive media attention?

It can't be a better time than now to arrange one!