Re: Wessex Trains terminates here
- From: Mark Annand <mark.annand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:02:38 +0100
Paul Harley wrote:
They will be missed. The Class 31s to Weymouth were a memorable part
of the franchise. Wessex also did well expanding most trains on the
Cardiff<>Portsmouth route to three cars, to deal with overcrowding.
And wasn't it Chris Gibb, when he was with Wessex, who came up with the idea of through trains to Waterloo ... ? I remember the train crews being as pleased as punch with the new service in the first summer of its operation. Wish it still ran in that form at the present time, rather than having the DfT kill it completely ... it was always more useful for reaching the parts of London that Paddington doesn't than to access Eurostar ...
Mark
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