Tuesday 04/01/2011 - A Full Service For Melksham?

Lee

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 7519

GBR - The Emperor's New Rail Network

Tuesday 04/01/2011 - A Full Service For Melksham?

« on: January 03, 2011, 00:12:32 »

As regular forum members/site visitors will know, the reliability of the Westbury-Swindon service via Melksham over the Christmas/New Year period has, ahem, not been all it could have...

However, a normal service is due to resume on Tuesday (04/01/2011) offering the opportunity of a clean sheet, and the chance for FGW^▸ to prove to TransWilts & Melksham rail users that they need not worry about a return to the fearsomely bad reliabilty of a few years ago.

So what do you think - Will FGW do us proud and deliver the normal schedule of TransWilts/Melksham rail services (such as it is) in full, or will they suffer an extended Christmas/New Year service reliability hangover?

One vote only per forum member, which you may change at any time up until the poll closes. Members unfamiliar with the TransWilts/Melksham timetable (2 services in each direction per day on weekdays) can find it at http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Documents/Custom/TTs%20Dec%20%2710/GW10D_TT25_WEB_%281%29.pdf


	Logged

Vous devez être impitoyable, parce que ces gens sont des salauds - https://looka.com/s/78722877

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43972

Re: Tuesday 04/01/2011 - A Full Service For Melksham?

« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2011, 16:09:46 »

Lee's not around today ... and has asked me to keep an eye on the running today / this thread. I'm doing so ... I've noted what happened this morning and I'll have an eye out tonight.


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43972

Re: Tuesday 04/01/2011 - A Full Service For Melksham?

« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2011, 06:35:10 »

All back yesterday, (no problem more that one service about 15 minutes late) and so far so good this morning. Looks like the optimists were right - congratulations.

Let's continue to be optimistic; it wasn't just on the TransWilts that FGW^▸ had issues on some of the days over Christmas and the New Year - in fact they seemed at times to have an exceptionally high number of issues considering the slack traffic and reduced services offered. But yesterday was much improved, so perhaps we can just put the last two weeks down to experience and have a robust, reliable service henceforth Grin

I am going to take slight issue with Lee using the word "full" in the subject line ... to me, a full service is a train service that runs in a manner appropriate to the corridor that it serves, and I look forward to having a full service at some point. I collected a visitor off the 19:11 arrival on Monday - that was the very first train of the day, and although it ran (as did the 19:47), I think the term "full" to describe the service is an example of George Orwell's doublespeak!


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

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]

« previous next »