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22/05/24 - WWRUG / TransWilts update
02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
1st May (1964)

Helicopter service from Penzance to Scilly Isles starts

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Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

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Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
Reading to London Waterloo Drivers eye view	anthony215	3	6087	September 03, 2013, 12:03:04 by trainer
"Odd" SWT train	moonrakerz	6	6320	May 21, 2009, 12:33:44 by devon_metro
Pasengers stuck overnight on DC EMUs due to ice.	broadgage	13	6323	March 18, 2018, 12:23:19 by JayMac
South Western Franchise extension talks break down.	JayMac	11	6531	November 26, 2015, 12:46:18 by ChrisB
Through service - Bristol to London (Waterloo) via Trowbridge ceases 10.12.2021 « 1 2 »	grahame	24	6547	October 21, 2022, 11:17:28 by Clan Line
Major Emergency Engineering at Waterloo - Sunday 14/04/2013	Brucey	10	6626	April 16, 2013, 14:08:39 by Brucey
SWT renaming stations for Valentine's Day	Brucey	9	6647	February 15, 2015, 23:21:12 by Red Squirrel
Fares on South West Trains to London « 1 2 »	swrural	17	6655	March 03, 2013, 15:19:46 by paul7575
Works beside track between Waterloo and Reading	johngreg	8	6710	April 17, 2013, 10:13:46 by paul7575
South Hants Rail Users Group ^ suggestions on publication of Wessex Route Study	grahame	8	6828	January 30, 2015, 23:52:48 by Chris from Nailsea
Guildford station reopened after "suspicious" fatality	bobm	2	7044	April 01, 2013, 16:51:27 by Chris from Nailsea
SWT to Devon & Cornwall!	Southernman	7	7093	May 01, 2014, 00:38:14 by LiskeardRich
Summer 19 Timetable « 1 2 »	rogerw	26	7123	January 09, 2020, 12:52:25 by stuving
Amendment to the current South West Trains franchise	ChrisB	1	7271	March 25, 2015, 17:45:06 by paul7575
Rail passengers on SWT told only slim people could sit due to shortage of space « 1 2 »	Chris from Nailsea	15	7499	March 17, 2015, 18:09:58 by thetrout
December 18 Timetable Consultation « 1 2 »	Timmer	21	7583	April 07, 2018, 21:47:14 by Timmer
No local knowledge apparently « 1 2 »	swrural	15	7583	January 31, 2013, 14:16:15 by swrural
29th December 2015 / South West Franchise meeting, Exeter	grahame	2	7729	January 04, 2016, 00:15:14 by grahame
Strike ballot for South Western Railway staff « 1 2 »	Timmer	22	7764	June 12, 2018, 14:04:15 by JayMac
Class 458 door speed-up?	stuving	7	8040	December 11, 2013, 00:23:38 by Southern Stag