TweetDuring yesterday’s Commons debate, Robert Key, MP (Cons) for Salisbury contributing the following:- Oral Answers to Questions – Wales: Train Services (4 Jul 2007) Robert Key: The fourth prize in a recent charity auction in my constituency was a pair of First Great Western first class return tickets to London. I do not think that [...]
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Other Tehminas
TweetQuite by chance, I happened upon this string of comments about the meaning of Tehmina on an (old?) blog called Tam’s Diaries. There were suggestions of all descriptions from people called Tehmina across the world. Some suggestions were: ‘true witness’, ‘shred’ or ‘scintilla’, ‘healthy’ or ‘insurance’ in Arabic, ‘honest’ in Hebrew, ‘precious of heart’ and [...]
Response from Department for Transport
TweetOn 12 June, I received the following response from Judith Shepherd of the DfT to my letter concerning the lack of services on the TransWilts (Salisbury – Westbury – Chippenham – Swindon) line. I was reliably informed that a large amount of the text of the letter was copied from DfT responses sent to concerned [...]
Long live Cheeserolling!
Tweet CRW_2945 Originally uploaded by mike warren A wonderful image of Gloucestershire cheeserolling taken by Mike Warren. During this fine annual Whitsun bank holiday tradition people from all over the world chase (roll) in pursuit of a rather large Gloucester cheeses down Coopers Hill, Gloucestershire. See more cheeserolling photos here. News stories seem more concerned [...]
First Great Western (train operator) responds
TweetHere is the reply from Alison Forster, Managing Director of First Great Western to my letter of concern regarding the decimation of the services provided on the TransWilts line. The reply is dated 17 May 2007. A superb bit of verbal engineering in the second paragraph. And also note that although my concern was for [...]
Wiltshire County Council (local transport authority) responds
TweetHere is the response to my letter of concern regarding the decimation of services on the TransWilts line from a representative of Wiltshire County Council, dated 15 May 2007. At least two other campaigners received the same reply (word for word) though from different people in the council. Dear Tehmina George Batten has asked me [...]
"Real benefits"
TweetFGW boss Alison Forster said in an announcement on 20 April that: Customers will see real benefits soon I dread to think of the reality of the benefits FGW will offer. Not to travel by train perhaps? She also said that last year was an “enormous challenge” for the rail company. How hard is it [...]
Response to FGW bad service from Department for Transport
TweetI wrote to my MP Robert Key (Salisbury) about my concerns and complaints about First Great Western’s service in my area. He on my behalf wrote to Tom Harris MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, from the Department for Transport. Here is a summary of the reply. It seems to me that the [...]
First Great Western Coffee Shop
TweetA new discussion website has been launched specifically for First Great Western passengers to air their thoughts about the state of service on the FGW network which now stretches across large parts of the south and south-west of England. Be enlightened. Come and take part. Stop moaning and actually do something to help save your [...]
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
TweetCornwall lost services on two of its branch lines for an entire week to salve the cuts made in the Bristol area. They said it was only for a week, but is this not setting a bad precedent? The cuts and bad service I have been discussing seem to be the product of badly written [...]
