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I think it would be good if Pewsey had an hourly service - a mixture of semi-fast and intercity services. What do you think?

Good idea - but I don't think the demand is really there at Pewsey to warrant such a service. You might as well just install a reversing siding at Pewsey to be honest and extend the Bedwyn stoppers there - or perhaps to Westbury.

Extend London-Bedwyn services to Westbury and use a 180. That would be good.

To be honest, most West of England services should run fast between Reading and Taunton, with perhaps the Plymouth terminators stopping at Pewsey, Westbury and Castle Cary. This is to keep journey times down.

Extend the "Network South East" services to Westbury, and/or add in more "local" services from Paddington to Taunton which could call at Newbury as well. 180s would be useful,although it seems either Hull Trains, Grand Central or NXEC will get the remaining units.

Most Pewsey people are London commuters, but the NSE extension would allow more local travel from the station.

We would like more services to & from Melksham.
Nice if the train went London to Westbury (stopping a Pewsey)  & then up to Chippenham, stopping at Trowbridge and Melksham. yes I know Melksham has a short platform.

You have more chance of Swindon blowing up.

Don't worry Swindon, you are perfectly safe.

NO NO NO!!!! Pad trains are slow enough now!

Good idea, but I think 2 IC services stopping at pewsey, westbury, castle cary should carry on to Penzance.

No - the journey time for the services beyond Plymouth needs to be kept down.

And these trains would be full enough before they reached these extra stops.

I agree with adelante. As long as most services are fast there is no harm in extending journey oppotunites.

Devon metro, you seem to have good ideas and are open to other's ideas. Keep it up!

You lose about 4-5 mins by calling at Pewsey, Castle Cary, etc.

FGW schedulers have that figure more like 15...

RDG - TAU fast depart Taunton at xx48
RDG - PEW - WSB - CLC - TAU depart Taunton xx03

My figure is for each station.

You could extend the service from Swindon back to Padd stopping at Didcot Reading and Slough and then run some Bristols fast from Bath to Reading.  Possibly every 2 hours at first each way. A bit like an outer Kinston loop service. With a 180 if FGW can get them back. 

Having travelled on one from Gloucester to Reading and several times from London to Slough  for an underfloor DMU they aren't too bad less cramped than a Voyager.

The peak Pewsey service is probably over the top in reality. There is no need for both a 0625 and 0639 and the 1706 and 1806 from Padd in the evening are fairly pointless as they get caught up by the following faster 1733 and 1836. The off-peak service is rather sparse, however, being at roughly 3 hour intervals. I think 2-hourly would be more appropriate for the demand and one way this could be done would be to extend the Bedwyns. They could terminate at Pewsey and the unit run ECS to Woodborough for reversal.

17:06 and 18:06 are useful for those who do not want to pay the peak time fares though.

But for Pewsey only peak fares are valid on the 1706 and 1806. Strangely the 1836 was fairly recently opened up to Savers to Pewsey and beyond. Incidentally I am on the 1706 today with a ^6 advance single bought only last night!