Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 18:55 27 Sep 2023
- Largest ever Irish drug seizure after ship raided
- HS2 firm 'cautious' about taking future UK projects
- 'Our daughter was killed by a speeding police car’
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]
 03/10/23 - 40th Anniversary TMC reopening
07/10/23 - Fareham Model Rail exhibition
22/10/23 - Wimborne 'O' Gauge show
29/11/23 - WWRUG meeting

No 'On This Day' events reported for 27th Sep

Train RunningCancelled
18:02 Worcester Foregate Street to London Paddington
18:20 Reading to Redhill
18:53 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads
19:01 Reading to Gatwick Airport
19:58 Redhill to Reading
20:50 Truro to Falmouth Docks
21:22 Falmouth Docks to Truro
22:56 Truro to Falmouth Docks
23:22 Falmouth Docks to Truro
Short Run
18:18 Carmarthen to London Paddington
18:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
20:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
Delayed
An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 19:23 Swansea to London Paddington
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple MeadsBath SpaChippenhamSwindonDidcot ParkwayReadingLondon PaddingtonMelksham
Exeter St DavidsTauntonWestburyTrowbridgeBristol ParkwayCardiff CentralOxfordCheltenham SpaBirmingham New Street
September 27, 2023, 07:05:42 pm *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[268] Braunton
[117] Ticket Machines
[78] Ticket Office Closure Consultation
[56] Not just a problem on GWR....
[42] HS2 - Government proposals, alternative routes and general dis...
[40] London - Edinburgh with Avanti: coherent account of a disrupte...
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Linked Events
  • WWRUG Meeting: September 20, 2023
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Hear about FoSBR work in Bristol and their growth to the Bristol Rail Campaign  (Read 769 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 39348



View Profile WWW Email
« on: September 15, 2023, 09:35:44 am »

Come along to the West Wiltshire Rail User Group meeting next Wednesday - 20th September 2023, 19:00 for 19:30 in Trowbridge, for to hear Tim Weekes of the Bristol Rail Campaign tell us how as FoSBR» (Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways - site) they have helped grow rail use in the Bristol area - including adding our extra services from Westbury to Bristol. See - https://www.wwrug.org.uk/flyer.html

You will also hear an update from our chair and other committee members who attended the GWR (Great Western Railway) Stakeholder Conference at Steam in Swindon earlier this week. Pictured - our chair Richard Cowell signalling "clear line ahead" at Steam. Our meeting is likely to be a full and very interactive and informative, looking at issues such as frequency, capacity, reliability, staffing and ticketing.

All welcome - this is a public meeting. £2 a head, or sign up for annual membership - still just £6 this year which gets you four meetings, four news letter in addition to the Facebook Group

Venue - Bethesda Church Hall, Gloucester Road, TROWBRIDGE which is BA14 0AA - about 100 yards from Trowbridge Station. 19:00 for 19:30, 20th September 2023. We finish in time for you to catch the 21:18 via Bradford-on-Avon, the 21:22 via Melksham, the 21:31 via Westbury and Frome and the 21:58 via Warminster.

Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 39348



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2023, 07:36:48 am »

Very useful presentation by Tim Weekes, webmaster of the Bristol Rail Campaign which reminded us just how far forward we have come from the dark days of the Beechibg Axe and the proposal to close the Severn Beach line in 1970 through to the current 30 minute service on that line, proposals for redoubling and a 15 minute service and expansions of the Bristol area rail network with passenger services on to Henbury, Thornbury, and perhaps within the next 30 years to Portishead  Grin .  New stations too.   But then the question to of public transport in the rail deserts of south and east Bristol.   An inspiration of what can be done, and a reminder of how much more there is to do!

For the first time after a WWRUG» (West Wiltshire Rail Users Group - about) meeting apart from the 2016 (?) one night demonstrator, a service was available to take members back home to Melksham and Chippenham, at 21:24 - and there were five of us amongst the 18 passengers using the train.


WWRUG members awaiting carriages .. to Cardiff via Bradford-on-Avon and Bristol, and to Swindon via Melksham and Chippenham
« Last Edit: September 21, 2023, 09:43:40 am by Red Squirrel » Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the 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 the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of pageJump to Forum Home Page