I'm Jim Kettle, i'm 14 and im from Salisbury, and theres a few things I would like to shout out to Britain's Rail Network!!!!
Hi Jim! I wasn't aware you were only 14! 
-Firstly, I want FGW to oporate a houl;y service to Brighton, Not 1/2 times daily!
So would I, but in practice the paths are better used. Improve Bristol to Southampton to half-hourly, and reroute the alternate one to either Pompey or Bournemouth. Southern could run a better service west of Pompey though.
-I want XC to make their Paignton runs at least hourly, like VT did before they passed the franchise over to Arriva back in the old days!!!
I wasn't even aware Paignton had a cross-country service until the London & South-East maps changed a few years ago. I had assumed FGW (and, before 2006, SWT! - whoops 
) had a monopoly. That's how minor the (V)XC service is/was.
-SWT to bring back their Brighton service.
Again, so would I, but the paths are better used. Brighton should have a link of some kind with Reading though; ditching both Fareham and Redhill options was not right.
-SWT to bring back their West of Exeter service
This reduction was necessary to create an hourly frequency west of Salisbury. And I think Exeter is quite a nice place to change, actually. Based on the number of spare 158s/159s, I think that it might be possible to run to Paignton or Plymouth, but only sometimes. In practice, such an arrangement would not work very well, so the service would be better off as present.
-ATW to bring back their Manchester-Waterloo service
I wonder if Moderation of Competition could affect this? To be honest, such a service would have been a novelty, not a practical operation. I would like to see Cardiff to Waterloo again though.
-Bring Barleston station back!
Is there really any need to? The whole area is dead.
-Give Three Oaks, Doleham & Winchelsea back it's hourly service!!!
I remember using this line when you were a baby (I really mean that, and I'm only eight years older than you! 
) and it seemed pointless. Thumpers were a nice novelty, but to me they just looked like 302s with cute triangles on the front. When one turned up at the MoD site back home one day, I was so happy! 
(It then got scrapped :cry Seriously though, if these stops were reintroduced the service would struggle to keep to its timings. There would have to be some improvements to the line to allow Rye to Ore to continue at its current already-low (by NSE standards) frequency of one an hour. And that's before you consider the Brighton extension, which has injected new life into the line.
-LM to Bring back their Gloucester-Worcester shuttle!!!
This service was completely pointless! No-one used it! However, I would have if I had been around. Having only one service every two hours between Gloucester and Worcester is a pain and a half...
-FGW to bring back their 158s on the Devon Metro
Is there really any point? Should we (that's the Wessex Main Line) get some improved rolling stock, by which I mean 4/5-car at 100mph, then fine, but otherwise it isn't fair on the busier routes.
-FGW to bring back their Westbury-Southamptobn shuttlet at at least two hours.
The section of route north of Westbury should be the priority here. These shuttles usually run via Melksham, and it needs the better service, not Dean! Having said that, as noted above, I would like to see a more frequent longer-distance service.
-FGW to bring back then Penzance-Portsmouth service!
Another one I wasn't aware of. Presumably these ran via Bristol, or at the very least Westbury? It's too much of a diversion to justify such a route. If it went via Bristol, changing at Westbury would be faster; if it ran via Westbury, changing at Salisbury would be faster. This route would also use valuable paths that don't really exist around Southampton (or rather wouldn't exist according to my idea! ).
So, any comments, questions, points of veiws, etc?
Thanks,
Jim.
One more, if I'm honest. Please don't take this the wrong way, but do try to watch your spelling and grammar a bit more. If you were my student (I am training to be a teacher), I would have written "sp" more than once too often there.
