I admire their persistence, and am satisfied that public demand exists for a year round train service from Minehead to at least Taunton and preferably further afield.
There is demand ... with traffic across intermediate places too and let me see how some of those might string together.
-> Minehead to Taunton (new service)
-> Taunton to Frome (new service)
-> Frome via Westbury (improved service)
-> Westbury to Swindon (much better service)
-> Swindon to Oxford (new service)
-> Oxford to Bletchley (new service)
-> Bletchley to Bedford (better service)
Been the same for years - but there are differences since the Go-op stuff started. Even the daily train from Frome to Taunton has been scrapped. Westbury to Swindon has increased from 2 to 9 each way per day then back down to 8, passenger numbers up 25 fold but still 2.5 hour gaps. Swindon to Oxford is a lottery with connections at Didcot not always being connections and since Go-op started we have been promised, then denied electric trains to Oxford by
GWR▸ . Oxford to Bicester is another line that has been shut, reopened, built up and the line is being re-extended as far as Bletchley ....
Of course, there are all sorts of other ideas that could be floated. The hourly

semi-fast from Paddington to Newbury and all stations to Taunton could extend to Minehead, passed at Taunton by the Penzance express. But I expect someone would grumble about hard seats and the trains being only 5 carriages so not proper trains. Probably need to ease the platform at Watchet, but I think there were similar concerns at Narbeth that were quickly fixed.