Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 01:35 05 Dec 2023
- Chris Mason: Home Secretary James Cleverly heads to Rwanda to sign migration treaty
- Train strikes to resume on Tuesday - latest on the dispute
- Attenborough ship encounters world's largest iceberg
- Ryanair denies passengers must pay to download boarding pass
- Edinburgh Zoo pandas take off for return to China
- Train strikes: When are the walkouts in December?
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 10/12/23 - Winter Timetable starts
24/12/23 - Paddington closed
25/12/23 - No GWR trains
26/12/23 - No GWR trains (why not?)

On this day
5th Dec (1927)
Post Office Underground opens to Paddington (*)
Train RunningCancelled
05/12/23 02:24 Reading to London Paddington
05/12/23 03:34 London Paddington to Reading
05/12/23 04:35 Reading to London Paddington
04:59 Swansea to London Paddington
05:33 Bedwyn to London Paddington
05/12/23 06:25 Westbury to Frome
05/12/23 08:41 Westbury to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 11:05 Swindon to Westbury
05/12/23 12:15 Truro to Falmouth Docks
05/12/23 12:45 Falmouth Docks to Truro
05/12/23 12:45 Truro to Falmouth Docks
05/12/23 13:10 Gloucester to Weymouth
05/12/23 13:15 Falmouth Docks to Truro
13:15 Penzance to Plymouth
05/12/23 13:45 Truro to Falmouth Docks
05/12/23 14:04 Bristol Temple Meads to Filton Abbey Wood
05/12/23 14:13 Par to Newquay
05/12/23 14:15 Falmouth Docks to Truro
14:30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
05/12/23 14:45 Truro to Falmouth Docks
05/12/23 14:53 Filton Abbey Wood to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 15:10 Newquay to Par
05/12/23 15:15 Falmouth Docks to Truro
05/12/23 15:45 Truro to Falmouth Docks
05/12/23 16:15 Falmouth Docks to Truro
05/12/23 16:38 Plymouth to Gunnislake
17:00 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 17:28 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 17:33 Gunnislake to Plymouth
05/12/23 18:23 Par to Newquay
05/12/23 19:22 Newquay to Par
19:30 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
19:35 Exeter St Davids to London Paddington
20:16 Frome to Westbury
05/12/23 20:29 Par to Newquay
05/12/23 20:50 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
05/12/23 21:26 Newquay to Par
05/12/23 21:43 Bristol Temple Meads to Gloucester
22:51 London Paddington to Worcestershire Parkway
06/12/23 04:35 Reading to London Paddington
Short Run
06:01 Totnes to London Paddington
05/12/23 06:10 Bristol Temple Meads to Worcester Shrub Hill
05/12/23 06:42 Frome to Cardiff Central
05/12/23 06:46 Castle Cary to Filton Abbey Wood
06:54 Taunton to London Paddington
07:23 Carmarthen to London Paddington
05/12/23 07:28 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
05/12/23 07:33 Weymouth to Gloucester
05/12/23 08:03 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
05/12/23 09:30 Weymouth to Gloucester
05/12/23 09:45 Bristol Temple Meads to Salisbury
05/12/23 10:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
05/12/23 10:23 Exmouth to Paignton
05/12/23 11:10 Gloucester to Weymouth
05/12/23 11:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
05/12/23 11:29 Weymouth to Gloucester
05/12/23 11:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
12:15 Penzance to London Paddington
05/12/23 12:20 Paignton to Exmouth
05/12/23 12:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
12:28 London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare
05/12/23 12:50 Penzance to Cardiff Central
13:00 Cardiff Central to Penzance
14:15 Penzance to London Paddington
05/12/23 14:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
05/12/23 15:23 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
05/12/23 15:30 Warminster to Bristol Temple Meads
15:31 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
16:03 London Paddington to Penzance
05/12/23 16:27 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
05/12/23 16:47 Bristol Temple Meads to Warminster
05/12/23 17:50 Gloucester to Salisbury
18:08 London Paddington to Frome
05/12/23 19:13 Salisbury to Bristol Temple Meads
19:15 Penzance to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 19:50 Worcester Foregate Street to Bristol Temple Meads
05/12/23 20:06 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa
20:28 London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare
etc
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
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
December 05, 2023, 01:51:19 am *
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
[152] Alistair Darling (merged topics)
[97] 52 ghost railway stations across Wiltshire
[81] Documentry on Parson Street
[56] Dawlish - permanent resilience work - ongoing discussions
[41] 2023 - Train update and amendment log - Swindon <-> Westbury...
[38] Floods across the GWR network, 4th December
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > All across the Great Western territory > Diary - what's happening when? > Hear about FoSBR work in Bristol and their growth to the Bristol Rail Campaign
Linked Events
  • WWRUG Meeting: September 20, 2023
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Hear about FoSBR work in Bristol and their growth to the Bristol Rail Campaign  (Read 2061 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 39939



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: 39939



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  
« previous next »
 
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 page • Jump to Forum Home Page