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May 24, 2012, 03:39:06 PM

Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.

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2004 link from the Well House Consultants website.
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/40_.html

"As you can imagine, I can be found down at the station on Sunday evenings, Monday Mornings, Friday afternoons and other times, and it's great to see how in the last three years the traffic has increased. The single coach train can still cope well, but gone are the days just after the service was increased when I would be meeting the only passenger."

Yes, many of our customers were (and have remained until recent weeks) dependent on the train - and indeed on trains that are busy, but to be withdrawn in December. But as a business, when one of our suppliers pulls out of a market or makes it very clear by his actions that he's not interested in the custom we bring him, we need to look for alternatives.

I expect the withdrawl of all peak and daytime trains from the route through Melksham will dramatically cut passenger numbers (110k journeys per annum), but as Dr Ladyman at the DfT pointed out, it won't make a huge difference to the FgW franchise as a whole. Certainly, our own customers - and we provide a very small proportion of the line's users - will only very rarely find the new times are convenient. Huge pity.

Quote from: Graham Ellis on October 13, 2006, 06:44:13 PM

I expect the withdrawl of all peak and daytime trains from the route through Melksham will dramatically cut passenger numbers (110k journeys per annum), but as Dr Ladyman at the DfT pointed out, it won't make a huge difference to the FgW franchise as a whole.

You know , Graham , I am not so sure about that.

Remember the letter from Derek Twigg? (link below.)
http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/melkshamrailway/145_Letter_from_Derek_Twigg.html

"The highest numbers tend to be found between Chippenham and Swindon in the eastbound direction and, in the mornings, between Trowbridge and Westbury westbound. Alternative services are available on both these sections of route."

So what of the above passengers and those from destinations south of and including Trowbridge who are likely to have to change at Bath for a train to Chippenham & Swindon? Are they going to find these alternative services acceptable?

The same alternative services which will partly be provided by Portsmouth / Westbury - Cardiff trains , some of which are due to be reduced from 3 carriages to 2?

Wont these extra passengers end up increasing the load on already overcrowded trains before they stop at Avoncliff , Bradford - on - Avon & Freshford?

It should also be bourne in mind that the 234 bus service has already been re-routed via Chippenham railway station. What of Melksham or Trowbridge - Chippenham / Swindon passengers who choose to take the bus from December 2006? (links below.)
http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/southwest/somerset/search/resultsindex.php?results=792711
http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/loncombined.html

Wont they , at some point , end up being stuck behind all those nasty lorries diverted from Bath? (link below.)
http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=456.msg1331#msg1331

Unless , of course , the plan is to put all those nasty lorry loads onto freight trains via Melksham?

Far - fetched? Decide for yourself (link below.)
http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=495.msg1456#msg1456

Demand management?

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