NEW timetables could be introduced next year, a GWR boss has said.
Matthew Golton, commercial development director at Great Western Railway, said the firm was hoping to introduce the new timetable in December.
Speaking at an event to mark the first electric trains to run through Swindon, Mr Golton said: “The trains will be arriving in Swindon quicker than they do today. Next year we are introducing a timetable that will enable us to deliver more trains per hour and more seats. This is part of a progressive change.” The new timetable is expected to come into force by December 2019.
The new Hitachi electric trains will run between Didcot Parkway and Swindon. It is expected the hybrid-fuel trains will run on overhead wires from Swindon to Bristol Parkway next year. A scheme for the electrification of the line between Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads was halted by government in 2016, with no clear idea of when it might be completed.
Read tomorrow’s Swindon Advertiser for Network Rail’s apology to those impacted by the electrification works.
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