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Recommended service - hourly, according to the GWRUS. Let's work towards that service and towards ensuring all services are used.
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An example of what could be done with a bit of imagination...
« on: May 29, 2008, 04:31:40 PM »

It struck me that there are two areas of the current timetable which could do with improving upon.

1) Westbury (an increasingly busy junction station and terminus of any enhanced TransWilts service that may come to pass) and Pewsey have a very irregular pattern of trains to London.
2) Maidenhead is a very busy station (ranked 74th busiest in the UK) - which has a branch connection to Bourne End and Marlow. and although it has 4 trains an hour off-peak to London they are all painfully slow - taking nearly 40 minutes for the 23 mile journey.

I've spent a bit of spare time looking at these problems and tackled them both with a proposed timetable that replaces the current hourly off-peak Turbo service from Paddington-Bedwyn, with an Adelante operated service between Paddington and Westbury (and occiasionally Frome) which stops at Maidenhead.

I'm not expecting it to ever come to anything as FGW are off-loading all their Adelantes by the end of the year, but I though I'd share it with forum readers to show the huge benefits over the current service to these destinations. It is a full weekday timetable which includes pathing around other services (virtually nothing would have to change) and also indicative diagramming of Turbo and Adelante units to show what resources would be required.

The link to download it is: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808644282

My apologies for any pop-ups, but that is a necessary evil when using free file hosters!
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Re: An example of what could be done with a bit of imagination...
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 06:37:40 PM »

Some excellent work there, Industry Insider.

I've been working on similar stuff (albeit over a wider area) aimed at when the franchise next comes up for renewal. Assuming the various capacity enhancements/reopenings go ahead, the links below contain some of what I have come up with so far :

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/londoncornwall.xls

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/exmouthbarnstaple.xls

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/liskeardlooe.xls

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/plymouthstaustell.xls

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/sterthstives.xls

http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwfuture/trurofalmouth.xls

NOTES :

- These should be treated as winter timetables. I recommend summer expresses for Newquay, along with additional services for the Looe (utilising Moorswater Park & Ride) and Falmouth (utilising the Penryn loop) branches.

- Cornish branch line connections are focused on providing links to/from Plymouth, the Okehampton timetable connections are focused on providing links to/from Exeter, and the Barnstaple timetable connections are focused on providing links to/from Taunton, Plymouth & London.

- The proposals very much concur with the RPC "Western Advance" concept, with standard pattern timetables providing improved services and encouraging greater usage.

- I support the Lostwithiel-Fowey passenger service concept, but would need further info on the line before providing a service option.
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