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Topic: West Wilts services from Dec '07 - FGW presentation (Read 2132 times)
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Graham Ellis
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Following notes made during a presentation last night by Andrew Griffiths of FGW
Changes to remove "bunching" of trains on some routes, to improve connections, and to improve robustness.
* Westbury / Weymouth locals now carry on to Cheltenham area
* Taunton to Cheltenham area diverted to Cardiff
* Abbey Wood terminators extend to Parkway
* 3 extra (early morning and evening) Avonmouth trains
* Cardiff to Portsmouth trains stop at Bradford-on-Avon as standard
As the presentation was made at Westbury, Andrew Griffiths gave us a rundown of daily services from that station as from December.
12 a day toLondon (Paddington)
2 an hour to Bristol
Hourly to Portsmouth
8 extra a day "via Warminster" - some just to Warminster and others to Southampton and Brighton
8 a day to Weymouth
2 a day to Swindon
He mentions that although they have managed to make a lot of other improvements, the service to Swindon "has to stay the same". And they will "try again later" on that one. {{Where have I heard that story before}}
Either I failed to note the number of services to Taunton and beyond, or Andrew wasn't specific on it ...
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Lee
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I think that we should also mention Andrew's words on the enhanced Severn Beach Line service , due to come into effect from May 2008 :
- The extra train will be one of the 12 Class 142 units.
- The extra services will be classed as a commercial venture , part - funded by Bristol City Council. This means that they fall outside of the franchise remit , and thus do not require permission from the DfT (except the lease of the extra train itself , which the DfT have underwritten.)
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Graham Ellis
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Lee, I understood slighly differently on the class of unit.
I understood that all class 142 units were to be based in Exeter. Although there's a 142 unit "marked down" for the Avonmouth run - the 12th of 12 they're hiring rather than the 11 initially planned - that 12th unit will most likely displace a 143 from the Exeter area and it would be the 143 on the Avonmouths.
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Lee
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Lee, I understood slighly differently on the class of unit.
I understood that all class 142 units were to be based in Exeter. Although there's a 142 unit "marked down" for the Avonmouth run - the 12th of 12 they're hiring rather than the 11 initially planned - that 12th unit will most likely displace a 143 from the Exeter area and it would be the 143 on the Avonmouths.
Not possible. All FGW's Class 143 units are based at St Phillips Marsh. See list below. 143603 143611 143612 143617 143618 143619 143620 143621 What Andrew actually said was that the extra unit in service on the Severn Beach Line wont always be the Class 142 unit. Perfectly reasonable , given that most (if not all) TOC's rotate the units used on a given service each day. |
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