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« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2008, 19:33:15 »
Sorry, i didn't word that quite correctly, it used to be a half-hourly frequency as far as Westbury didnt it?
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« Reply #46 on: February 20, 2008, 19:46:54 »
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« Reply #47 on: February 20, 2008, 20:33:45 »
Quote from: Steve44 on February 20, 2008, 19:33:15
Sorry, i didn't word that quite correctly, it used to be a half-hourly frequency as far as Westbury didnt it?
Local services run between Portsmouth-Cardiff trains to give a half hour frequency between Westbury-Bristol.
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« Reply #48 on: February 20, 2008, 21:04:09 »


There used to be a service from Cardiff-Westbury every half hour when you took into account Cardiff-Portsmouth and Cardiff-Weymouth/Brighton, however they replaced the Weymouth/Brighton services with services to Taunton.
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« Reply #49 on: February 21, 2008, 08:55:34 »
Quote from: Jez on February 20, 2008, 21:04:09


There used to be a service from Cardiff-Westbury every half hour when you took into account Cardiff-Portsmouth and Cardiff-Weymouth/Brighton, however they replaced the Weymouth/Brighton services with services to Taunton.

Not in wessex days. Its back to how it used to be with Taunton/Wsm getting an hourly service to Cardiff and rightly so as Wiltshire already has one, however overcrowded it is  Tongue
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« Reply #50 on: February 21, 2008, 10:18:47 »
I think thenew timetable is pretty bad though. What was wrong with:

........Westbury-All shacks-Bristol
Taunton-Cardiff
Ports-Cardiff
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W-s-M/Bristol-Cheltenham.

It worked well, as the Avon Valley all shacks connected with the Cheltenham and the Severnside all shacks!
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« Reply #51 on: February 21, 2008, 21:05:31 »
Quote from: devon_metro on February 21, 2008, 08:55:34
Quote from: Jez on February 20, 2008, 21:04:09


There used to be a service from Cardiff-Westbury every half hour when you took into account Cardiff-Portsmouth and Cardiff-Weymouth/Brighton, however they replaced the Weymouth/Brighton services with services to Taunton.

Not in wessex days. Its back to how it used to be with Taunton/Wsm getting an hourly service to Cardiff and rightly so as Wiltshire already has one, however overcrowded it is  Tongue

I know it wasnt in Wessex days - it was Dec 06-Dec 07  Smiley

I agree it makes sense to have a CDF» (Cardiff - next trains) to Taunton service as there is already one going to Bath Spa and Wesbury direction.
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