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Sign Our Petition!!
« on: January 17, 2007, 02:05:05 PM »

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide a reliable train service with adequate capacity at times that travellers wish to make journeys from Swindon to Westbury, Bristol to Severn Beach, Portsmouth and Weymouth to Cardiff, Taunton to Cheltenham, Swindon to Cheltenham. This includes all intermediate stations and journeys in both directions."

Details of how to sign are contained in the link below.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/wessextrains/
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2007, 02:44:54 PM »

Signed with pleasure.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2007, 04:05:46 PM »

Signed and if I could I would do it again and again  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2007, 04:12:55 PM »

Happily signed. Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2007, 05:10:21 PM »

Signed and if I could I would do it again and again  Grin

Thanks Chris, you can't sign it again ... but your friends, colleagues and fellow travellers CAN.   Please tell them all about it.  And remember - with this petition via the No. 10 Downing Street site, we're promised an email back explaining the outcome to each signatory.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2007, 05:22:42 PM »

Folks I signed it and pass the link to people at work (Bristol) who use the train to get to work
I will check to see if they  sign & chase if not.
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2007, 07:40:40 PM »

More details at: http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/restore.html

Petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/wessextrains/

ALL are welcome to sign - not only users of FGW trains in the broad Bristol / Wessex area, but other FGW customers and other customers of First across the country - from Thurso to Penzance.  It could be YOUR train, YOUR bus next if you don't let 'em know you value it!

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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2007, 07:03:21 AM »

UPDATE - well over 1000 signatures already - THANK YOU - and support from international, national and local politicians as well as from the travelling public.   The more names we get, the better chance we have of getting action taken along the lines we call for - please sign if you agree with us and haven't done so yet

To make it easier to see who has signed, I've written a web page that grabs the published signer's list and formats it in alphabetic order, picking out MPs name, etc, at the top of the list  Wink . See here.
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 08:17:42 AM »

Petition closed with 1683 signatures - many more than I had hoped.   See follow up under "future" ...

http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1364.0

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who signed, and a second thank you to everyone who asked someone else to sign as well.   I can't guarantee any changes as a resukt of the petition, but I can guarantee that we've made out point and been looked at / noticed - at least to some extent.
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« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2007, 01:05:57 PM »

Now that the petition has closed , here is an article on what may happen next (link below.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=K0K2ZKBMEPYOZQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/12/npetition12.xml
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