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Title: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: johnneyw on February 16, 2019, 11:02:23 Just received an email from FOSBR regarding the Severnside Community Rail Partnerships 2019 passenger count and a request for volunteers to help with it.
This has not been done for a few years due to, amongst other factors, a volunteer shortage. They are keen to get this restarted this year as alternative methods are not as accurate. It hardly needs explaining how helpful these counts can be in providing useful info for the lines development. The count date has not been set yet (sometime in March or May was mentioned). The contact name and email address to register provisional interest with the SCRP is Keith Walton keith.severnside@btconnect.com. I've already registered my interest but don't let that put you off! 😐 Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: Red Squirrel on February 16, 2019, 11:03:08 #MeToo
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: grahame on February 16, 2019, 11:23:46 Happy to help them if the dates work for me - will email Keith
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: Reginald25 on February 16, 2019, 11:39:58 Happy to help as well, if the dates fit in.
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: TonyK on February 16, 2019, 14:29:37 Do we know the dates? I'd love to help, but don't have as much free time as I did when I was working.
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: Red Squirrel on February 16, 2019, 14:40:48 What we know is:
Quote ...either late March or May (in school term). To spread the workload one possibility is to do different trains on 3 consecutive days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: martyjon on February 17, 2019, 09:07:34 Do we know the dates? I'd love to help, but don't have as much free time as I did when I was working. Same with me. Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: johnneyw on February 17, 2019, 11:18:33 I just emailed Keith to register interest but mentioned that it was to some degree dependent on the date(s).
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: TonyK on February 17, 2019, 12:21:43 What we know is: Quote ...either late March or May (in school term). To spread the workload one possibility is to do different trains on 3 consecutive days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). I'm away at the end of March (just in case) but will be back by May. Might drop a line. Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: Bmblbzzz on February 17, 2019, 15:14:47 ...whereas I am likely to be away in May but here in March! Wednesdays have prior claims too.
Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: johnneyw on April 10, 2019, 12:38:32 Received an email today from Severnside CRP regarding the passenger count on the Severn Beach Line. They have had to cancel it this year due to insufficient volunteer numbers to guarantee sufficient accuracy.
Off course, this might in part be because volunteer numbers have dwindled from previous years but significantly, the fairly recent introduction of the The Turbos has seen a lot more 3 car sets and so the required volunteer numbers have increased. The email also cited local authority cutbacks for reducing the number of enumerators that they can contribute. Quite sad as these provided useful information and were seen as more accurate the the ticket figures. Title: Re: Severn Beach Line Passenger Count, call for volunteers. Post by: grahame on April 10, 2019, 16:48:11 ... but significantly, the fairly recent introduction of the The Turbos has seen a lot more 3 car sets and so the required volunteer numbers have increased ... I know how they feel ... it was so easy on the TransWilts when we had a 153. "Careful what you wish for", or "victim of their own success". This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |