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Title: Glastonbury Festival alterations Post by: willc on June 17, 2010, 12:22:08 Too numerous to mention really. I suggest looking at the FGW alterations page http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=720
Main point to note, as ever, is thinning out of the Cardiff service to free up HSTs next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and then on the following Monday. Title: Re: Glastonbury Festival alterations Post by: matt473 on June 17, 2010, 14:21:32 Suppose it's better than what we had for the download festival where XC as usual had a squeeze them in mentality with people carrying large amounts of luggage and camping equipment (along with essesential supplies of alcohol ;)) I admit it's a major annoyance to regular travellers but with charter stock standing idle on weekdays along with he wasted XC hst's, it makes you wonder why TOCs did not dip into their pockets for festival season services
Edit: Surprised FGW also didn't increase services west of Swansea for Beach break as Arriva services were rammed so could have made a tidy sum of money. Extending a few Cardiff services via Swansea district line to Pembrey would have helped to no end 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 |