The point I'm making is that the peak is spread out in the evenings, so people are more likely to use alternative services as opposed to in the morning peak when there is a much shorter time to transport people between places.
No problem with that concept at all if you^ve a 500 seat train starting from Bournemouth AND you start there AND you are not the sole service provider when you get closer to London.
I see your point about it calling at all stations and halts, but looking up Trowbridge to Filton Abbey Wood, there isn't another service for another 25 minutes (0632 from Weymouth being the next one after 0600 from Portsmouth Harbour), and 1F06 acts as a perfectly timed commuter service for Bristol Temple Meads and Filton Abbey Wood.
1F06 Hahahahaha, regularly shortformed, should be 4 car, people fed up and don^t trust it anymore so have adjusted to doing the following:
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TRO» ) ^ Salisbury/Gloucester ^ From Trowbridge mainly
BTM▸ customers due to the stupid 20 min layover at BTM, as it does get in early fairly frequently you can play roulette to catch a slightly late Exeter/Parkway depending on platform allocation.
0703 ^ Frome/Cardiff ^ This really should be a semi fast, this is the one that would possibly convince West Wilts people to not to drive it it could be made 40 min to N Bristol.
0713 ^ Salisbury/BTM ^
SWT▸ , everyone goes for this for comfort for at least part of the journey, quality that SWT much be making a great deal out of. Never mind the wait at BTM, it^s a hell of a lot better that bl**dy Trowbridge in the winter. Now very full 3 car.
0724 ^ Weymouth/Parkway ^ Do I have to say any more, roulette again, will it/won^t it train.
0744 ^ Warminster/Gt Malvern ^ Just because. Last of the Bristol crowd and the middle of the Bath people. Just takes tooooo long. (Haven^t an old timetable think this was the FIT direct, avoiding BTM at 0738 ish)
0758 ^ (1F06) Portsmouth/Cardiff ^ very late Bristol and last Bath shout, full 4 car at Trowbridge manic as 2, beat them away with a stick a Oldfield. Lucky dip.
0823 ^ Wey/Parkway ^ lucky souls who have some flexibility and the start of days out people, full and standing from Trowbridge, although it was nice as 4 car the other day, all the way to Parkway as well.
0900 ^ Stragglers, and again if running ok don^t stay on for FIT, there^s a train leaving from platform 9 if you are quick enough.
If you would like to recommend timetable changes then please come and join us in the guess the train game.
And apparently Dr Day^s is to slow, don^t ask me why, but you wait in the chord until everyone else is happy, then they let you through. Had quite a few naps sat outside the Rhubarb Tavern (on the train that is).
