I have received an FGW bulleting talking about timetable changes from next Monday - small adjustments to make things more robust. One place where this is needed is in the connection from Frome to Swindon in the morning; it wasn't mentioned as a change that's being made,  so I've dropped customer services a note asking whether / when they might deal with this issue.    I'll keep you posted.

Some of the Westbury - Southampton services were added 'last minute' into the franchise / timetable (so were some of the services to Ivybridge) and it seems that at the late stage it was done, there was little opportunity to time them to maximise their use.   So you have a couple of very silly situations where two services run within a few minutes of each other. 

With sensible planning, Either Dilton Marsh, Dean and Dunbridge stops perhaps could have been handled by alternate Cardiff to Portsmouth services (Dilton Marsh and Dean one hour, Dunbridge the next as I don't think there's a lot of traffic between the stations). or the extra service could have been run halfway between the expresses.

The tragedy is that the second option could have given rise to extra income at no extra expense, and the first option would have released a train which could have provided a proper TransWilts service at no extra cost.

Thanks Lee

Missed that it had already been covered, I should have known better.