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The First group subsidiary First Great Western runs most train services in a wedge westward from London under a Franchise agreement with the Department for Transport which commenced on 1st April 2006 and runs for 7 years with an optional 3 year extension. The official FGW web site is here. The web site you are currently on is run by one of their customers.

There have been major changes to the service provided, and to its cost, many of which are to the detriment of the service provided to the railway's customers - its passengers. The service to my home town of Melksham, Wiltshire for example - with a population of around 24,000 - has had its train service cut from 5 a day (each way) to just 2 a day, and they run at times that aren't convenient for most passengers. Travelling from Melksham to London for the day, I could buy a return ticket on the train for under 50 pounds last November. Now the fare on the only available train is over 100 pounds, with off peak fares withdrawn in December and a further price rise on the standard fares in January.



* Services covered
* Who\'s who at FGW?
* Smoke and Mirrors - "it's THEIR fault"
* Fare\'s fair?
* Alternatives to taking the FGW train
* Your rights as a passenger



* Paddington to Reading via Slough and Maidenhead
* Paddington to the Kennet valley - Newbury, Bedwyn etc
* Paddington to Didcot and Oxford
* Paddington to Swindon, Bath, Bristol, Weston-super-mare Gloucester and Cheltenham
* Paddington to Newport, Cardiff and Swansea
* Paddington to Westbury, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth and Cornwall
* Paddington to the Cotswolds, Worcester and Hereford



* Thames valley branches - Greenford, Windsor, Marlow and Henley
* Thames valley via Oxford - Bicester and Banbury
* Reading to Gatwick
* Reading to Basingstoke

* Swindon to Westbury via Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge
* Weymouth, Yeovil and Frome services
* Brighton, Porsmouth, Southampton, Romsey to Salisbury
* Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon to Bath and Bristol
* Bristol commuters - from Bath, Weston-super-mare, Severn Beach, South Wales and Gloucester ... Cheltenham
* Swindon and West of there to Didcot and Oxford
* South Wales local journeys

* Exeter to Exmouth
* Exteter to Barnstaple
* Exeter and Newton Abbot to Torbay
* Exeter to Plymouth local journeys
* Plymouth to Gunnislake
* Plymouth to Penzance - local journeys
* Liskeard to Looe
* Par to Newquay
* Truro to Falmouth
* St Erth to St Ives

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N.B. - This site is owned and run by a customer of Great Western Railway and is not an official site of the company. If you are looking for Great Western Railway's web site please go to http://www.gwr.com. If you want to know more about this site, go here.

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