Won't SWR continue to run the Salisbury to London Waterloo trains where you can transfer at Salisbury for other trains to Bristol?
The AM Peak Weymouth to London train will run non-stop from Bournemouth to Southampton to join a stopper departing from Bournemouth to Southampton, at 2tph.
According to the document, one of the evening peak tph detached at Southampton is extended to Poole, so Brockenhurst maintains its link to Branksome and Parkstone then.
Reason why I asked this as students who attend Brock College use the train from Dorset though do not know the numbers. I used to catch the the all stops slam door trains that started from Wareham at Poole back around 2003 or 2004.
The level of inconvenience will depend on how SWR schedule the trains between Bournemouth and Southampton.
I used to be a Brock college student myself and have to say the train was very convenient from Hamworthy. While a savvy rail traveller like myself could cope with a short same-platform change, I’m not sure the same can be said for dozens of other typical students, particularly those who have to lug sports gear or musical instruments with them!
If they can't cope with a simple cross-platform interchange than they shouldn't be travelling by train. We are talking about college students, not primary school students, right?
If the connections become too poor or inconvenient, then most will just choose to drive instead. Not like many 17-18 year-olds will want to miss out on the freedom they gain as soon as they pass their test!
Are all 17-18 year-olds in the region so rich that they can afford a car, monthly parking near home and ridiculous insurance premiums once they pass their test?!
The joining of fast and slow portions at Southampton in the am peak has been the normal operation for many years, pre COVID. It would be happening already if there weren’t so many temporary service reductions.
No I haven't yet as I was too busy with work to read it in more detail. I do plan to.
Well I guess most use their parents’ vehicle. During my first two years of college, I caught the bus from Wimborne and by the end of that time, all the fellow students I’d become friends with had ditched the bus in favour of the car. I don’t blame them either as it went all round the houses through Ferndown and St Leonard’s, whereas a car can just whizz up the A31 bypassing all the villages en route.
I've now started to read it. Very interesting.
That's what I really hope they don't do but given the timetabelling constraints the fast will always be just behind the stopper so I suspect it will be. The stopper has traditionally felt like the busier one, so everyone who has had to wait 30 minutes at Guildford piling on doesn't seem a great idea. Perhaps, it is less busy now people aren't commuting as much and the fasts stop at Godalming, but even there the stopper will be the next train for a 30 minute gap.
I see what you are saying. I'm reading the document on my mobile and I misread it.
I only want calls on faster services to maintain the number of calls to a station as it was pre-covid-19 rather than to increase the number of calls.
If you're referring to contributors on here I think that's a rather cynical view.
Another cynical view that I have but hope they don't put in place is that they are just going to cut services out of the existing timetable as that is quick and easy rather than recast it to make fewer services work for passengers, e.g. that Clapham Junction call I keep mentioning.
