| Re: Barnstaple to Exeter overcrowding, September 2026 Posted by IndustryInsider at 09:31, 10th September 2026 |     |
Unless someone else is paying GWR don't invest in the southwest.
But in the dying days (months, years) of a franchise / management contract, would not any company with shareholders take the same view of investment?
Of course they would.
| Re: Barnstaple to Exeter overcrowding, September 2026 Posted by grahame at 08:22, 10th September 2026 | |
Unless someone else is paying GWR don't invest in the southwest.
But in the dying days (months, years) of a franchise / management contract, would not any company with shareholders take the same view of investment?
| Re: Barnstaple to Exeter overcrowding, September 2026 Posted by REVUpminster at 06:58, 10th September 2026 | |
Unless someone else is paying GWR don't invest in the southwest.
| Barnstaple to Exeter overcrowding, September 2026 Posted by grahame at 04:56, 10th September 2026 | |
Reports from the North Devon Line Promotion Group tell me that the 07:23 from Barnstaple to Exeter has so many passengers wanting to use it that there isn't room for them all, and coaches are being laid on direct from Barnstaple to Exeter Central to carry many of the student passengers who have planned to use the train.
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I have restrained myself from adding armchair comment from afar onto their social media - but I can't help seeing an irony in a "promotion group" having helped promote a service to the extent it is broken.
