swcovas
Member
I would like to draw forum memebers' attention to the STILL ONGOING campaign for an improved service on the Heart of Wales line. Despite a reasonably positive cost benefit study 2 years ago the line continues to soldier on with a timetable which seems to serve no one satisfactorily.
The line has to be operated with the minimum number of units to provide 4 trains each way resulting in the first trains in each direction running as virtually empty stock for much of their journies. The first train arrives in Swansea just after 9am.....useless for commuter traffic and far too early for leisure traffic!! The first Salop bound train leaves Swansea at 0435! And there are more unsatisfactory aspects to the timetable. Have a look if you're not familiar.
Anyway, there is yet another project underway to campaign for the fifth train which is at the stage of requiring stakeholder feedback. I would like to encourage as many of you as possible to respond......the line needs all the help it can get!! Unfortunately getting info on what is happening on the line is sometimes difficult as the two websites are unimaginative, uninspiring and uninformative......Fishguard trains website have managed to create so much more in just campaigning on behalf of one station!!!
Have a click on to http://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/news.htm#support for a bit more information. If you want to read the WELTAG Cost/Benefit analysis of two years ago it's at: http://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/Howl_Weltag_final_reportfv2.pdf
The line has to be operated with the minimum number of units to provide 4 trains each way resulting in the first trains in each direction running as virtually empty stock for much of their journies. The first train arrives in Swansea just after 9am.....useless for commuter traffic and far too early for leisure traffic!! The first Salop bound train leaves Swansea at 0435! And there are more unsatisfactory aspects to the timetable. Have a look if you're not familiar.
Anyway, there is yet another project underway to campaign for the fifth train which is at the stage of requiring stakeholder feedback. I would like to encourage as many of you as possible to respond......the line needs all the help it can get!! Unfortunately getting info on what is happening on the line is sometimes difficult as the two websites are unimaginative, uninspiring and uninformative......Fishguard trains website have managed to create so much more in just campaigning on behalf of one station!!!
Have a click on to http://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/news.htm#support for a bit more information. If you want to read the WELTAG Cost/Benefit analysis of two years ago it's at: http://www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/Howl_Weltag_final_reportfv2.pdf