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Nick Field
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Evening Train from Swindon cancelled tonight
« on: December 23, 2005, 05:58:00 PM »

I heard on BBC Radio Wilts Travel News that the 1743 from Swindon to Southampton was cancelled and starting from Westbury.  Not nice if it was your last day at work beofre the holidays and you had to get home  Angry Sad Huh Cry  Hopefully most had finished early and it did not inconvience to many people.

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Re: Evening Train from Swindon cancelled tonight
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2005, 12:27:16 PM »

Geeze ... I hate to say "again" because any reader who picks this up and is thinking of using the service will be put right off.  And yet - it's a further illustration of the incredible potential of the line.   We roll our eyes and almost expect regular cancellations ... at the same time traffic continues to get better on the trains that do run.  Did you see my daily snapshot exactly a week previous, when there was a 33% increase on train users in Melksham from just three months earlier.

"Use it or loose it" say the planners.  We ARE using it - and in the face of quite some adversity. Let's hope that we've still got a chance to work WITH them (now the First team) to keep it - and with an improved realiability - and to everyone's advantage.
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