FGW have announced plans to spend out for 5 3 -Carriage trains to serve the Portsmouth Cardiff line. This is along with spending £29 million on general improvements to the FGW regional services.

A step in the right direction... DEFINATLEY!!..... A final result... Nope.more still needs to be done, but tbh I'm just glad to see that they are trying.

It is indeed a good step - with the real "proof of the pudding" being whether First Great Western carries on with other steps (such as getting back to an appropriate service on the TransWilts, Weymouth Summer Weekend with a service than can cope, and so on) or tries to rest on its laurels.   

I hope that their press release saying that they have "Other prirotities" when talking about the TransWilts isn't their first step to ensuring that this set of improvements is limited to as little as they feel they need to do to get Ruth Kelly off there back.  I hope they do enough to get RuthG off their back too (sorry for getting personal, Ruth - too good a conncetion to miss!)  RuthG is our member who took three HOURS to get home the other week from Swindon to Frome ... a journey that should take 55 minutes!