I've had a quick peek at those ... looking up a couple of towns that I've worked in and become quite familiar with in the past - Atherstone and Stone.    Both have suffered rail ravages in the past - stations with no trains stopping - and I'm glad to see an hourly through service shown, to / from London, through the day to both of them.   I'm sure that's about the "right" level - call it an educated guess if you llike; with Atherstone especially, I've spoken with people in the town ....

Atherstone has a population of between 8000 and 9000.    Stone's is around 15,000.   The decision to specify an hourly service for each of them rather confirms that Melksham, population 24,000 is very hard done by indeed with just two trains each way a day.  Or perhaps when our draft December 2008 timetable appears, it will also show an hourly service to London  .   Personally, I'll be much more modest and welcome a service that may not go quite so far, and may be isn't quite so frequent.

Stone - see http://www.heart-of-stone.co.uk/newsview.asp?newsid=123

Passenger Focus are organising a conference in Preston regarding this (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7088658.stm

More on the December 2008 WCML timetables in the link below.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=884.msg3847#msg3847