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Author Topic: 'Passengers: pull out all the stops' (Oxford Mail, 30/11/2011)  (Read 5161 times)
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« on: November 30, 2011, 12:24:02 »

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Villagers are being urged to hop on a train to do their Christmas shopping and boost the chances of their station getting a regular Saturday service in future.

At the request of the Cotswold Line Promotion Group, trains will make special stops at Ascott-under-Wychwood station on Saturdays in December, giving residents the chance of a day out by Rail in Oxford or London, or a visit to Worcester^s Victorian Christmas Fair.

The West Oxfordshire station, along with the halts at Combe and Finstock, lost its Saturday service in December 2006, leaving it with just one train into Oxford and one back from Monday to Friday.

The station was given a second platform earlier this year as part of Network Rail^s ^67m project to reinstate double track on 20 miles of the Oxford-Worcester route. The CLPG» (Cotswold Line Promotion Group - about) wants to see Saturday calls at the station reinstated and hopes a good response by villagers to December^s special stops will encourage train operator First Great Western to consider operating regular services.

CLPG chairman John Ellis said: ^We welcome the agreement of First Great Western to stop some trains at Ascott-under-Wychwood on Saturdays in the weeks before Christmas.

^We have long considered that the potential of the station is not being realised by the present minimal service provision.

^We hope that the community of Ascott and its surrounding area will support this initiative and enable us to continue to press for more regular stops, initially on Saturdays, but eventually throughout the week.^

The CLPG hopes the trains may also attract visitors to the Wychwoods area, including walkers seeking a car-free day out in the Cotswolds.

John Ratchford, a spokesman for FGW (First Great Western), said: ^At this stage the service is limited to Saturdays in December, however we will be reviewing the success of this service and consider future options.^

FGW will add the following extra stops at Ascott on Saturdays December 3, 10, 17 and 24: The 7.10am from Hereford to London will call at 9.04am. The train is due to arrive in Oxford at 9.25am and London Paddington at 10.29am.

The 11.21am from Paddington to Worcester and Great Malvern, which leaves Oxford at 12.23pm, will call at Ascott at 12.47pm and the 3.21pm from Paddington to Great Malvern (4.23pm from Oxford) will stop at Ascott at 4.45pm.

In addition, on December 3 only, the 5.49pm from Great Malvern (6.02pm from Worcester) will call at Ascott at 6.59pm to bring home afternoon visitors to the Worcester Christmas Fair.
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 14:31:10 »

Ineterestingly, when I click on the Oxford Mail link it takes me to the website of the Oxford Times. Just goes to show, you can never believe anything you read in the press!
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 15:20:01 »

Paging Btline...we need an apoplectic response to the plan to insert yet more calls on Cotswold line services Wink
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« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 15:43:53 »

The Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times (and indeed several other publications) are all part of the same organization. We've had this discussion before, at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=8932.msg91142#msg91142  Roll Eyes

See http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/9391544.Passengers__pull_out_all_the_stops/ or http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/9391544.Passengers__pull_out_all_the_stops/  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 17:12:33 »

Paging Btline...we need an apoplectic response to the plan to insert yet more calls on Cotswold line services Wink

It is a 2 mile, 5 minute journey to Shipton. For such an unpopulated area, I fail to see the point of inserting stops.

Yes, in the West Midlands, Lye and Stourbridge Junction stations are also 5 minutes apart (the former has 2tph, the latter 6tph)- but the whole area is built up with housing for miles around.

Apoplectic?
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 21:54:12 »

Ineterestingly, when I click on the Oxford Mail link it takes me to the website of the Oxford Times. Just goes to show, you can never believe anything you read in the press!

Everyone's linked to everyone else these days.   I had a business survey to fill in today, and we had to choose if we were a parent company with subsidiaries, or the subsidiary of a parent.   There was no option offered for "independent company".

Pulling back on topic, I'm delighted to see FGW (First Great Western) inserting extra stops where there's some traffic on offer.  I can think of a place much nearer to my home where extra trains stopping would be very welcome too - and it has several tens of thousands in its catchment.
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2011, 11:28:24 »

Pulling back on topic, I'm delighted to see FGW (First Great Western) inserting extra stops where there's some traffic on offer.  I can think of a place much nearer to my home where extra trains stopping would be very welcome too - and it has several tens of thousands in its catchment.

Any possibility of EWR going your way? South Coast to East Coast link...
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2011, 09:30:55 »

Readers of this blog may be interested to know that for the Up service last Saturday (3rd) 13 people boarded the train at Ascott and for the Down service to Worcester 23 people boarded. Surely a worthwhile stop? Lets now see how many use the remaining December Saturday stops at Ascott.
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