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Title: Return Of Sunday Trains To Avonmouth Post by: Lee on April 04, 2008, 17:27:14 For the first time since the late 1950's/early 1960's (so I am told, post if incorrect or if you know the exact date), a regular year-round local Sunday train service between Bristol and Avonmouth will begin on 18 May 2008. See link below for more details of this and other significant Severn Beach Line service improvements.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=2078.msg15550#msg15550 Title: Re: Return Of Sunday Trains To Avonmouth Post by: Lee on May 19, 2008, 08:58:37 Interesting FOSBR comparison piece with the opening of Hotwells station in 1865 (link below.)
http://www.fosbr.org.uk/magazine.php?magid=0000000134 Quote from: FOSBR Well, the first train on the improved (New Sunday) service was a bus, the first real train eleven minutes late. Nonetheless a dozen passengers each way. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |