| Melksham trains - "useless" has improved, but only to thin and unreliable Posted by grahame at 10:07, 12th September 2025 |     |
100 minute wait for the next train - if it runs ...https://grahamellis.uk/blog1716.html
Westbury Station is a hub - trains head off in five different directions. I found myself there yesterday at just after half past two in the afternoon, looking to get home to Melksham. And it reminded me how grossly imbalanced, shoddy, thin, our train service is at Melksham.
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| Re: Melksham trains - "useless" has improved, but only to thin and unreliable Posted by John D at 17:05, 1st October 2025 | |
GWR has just updated its 4 weekly performance figures
Cancellations overall up to 4.32% (much higher on some lines)
On time is still poor at 57.87%
The more reasonable within 3 minutes is only 75.75
Amazingly the >119 minutes late has a percentage, showing 1 in 10,000 trains at least 2 hours late
Short formed trains are averaging over 90 per week (below the min spec agreed within DfT)
I know they are struggling, but this period covers fair late summer weather, not stormy Autumn or snowy winter. So depending on your view, either not great, or rather poor.
https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/about-gwr/what-you-can-expect/our-performance/GWR-Periodic-Web-Report-P2606.pdf
