17:50 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 20:36
17:50 Gloucester to Southampton Central due 20:36 will be started from Westbury.
It will no longer call at Gloucester, Stonehouse, Stroud, Kemble, Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.
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Let's look at this train in four segments
17:50 Gloucester to Swindon
Next train - 18:14 (24 minutes later). 17:50 is (or was pre-covid) quite an important commuter service18:52 Swindon to Westbury
Next train 20:45 (113 minutes later). Late commuter train from Swindon; first for 76 minutes too.19:37 Westbury to Salisbury
Next train 20:06 (29 minutes later). Getting quiet by this time of the evening
20:06 Salisbury to Southampton
There's a train just in front (10 minutes earlier) and another 29 minutes later. Very quiet train when I have used it.
Why, oh why, cancel the section where there's nothing before or after it for well over an hour, but then run some other bits ... (yes, I know I will get operational answers ... I'm suggesting that the choice made is crazy as far as customers are concerned ...).
Of these four sub-trains priorities should be
IMHO▸ 1= 17:50 Gloucester to Swindon
1= 18:52 Swindon to Westbury
3 19:37 Westbury to Salisbury
4 20:06 Salisbury to Southampton