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Delay Repay compensation Ticket held Amount payable Single ticket, or Return ticket with delay on both the outward and return journey: 50% of the price paid Return ticket with delay on outward or return journey: 50% of the price paid for the relevant portion of the journey Season ticket
In April 2006, First Great Western, First Great Western Link and Wessex Trains were combined into the new Greater Western franchise and brought under the First Great Western brand. The company adopted its current name and a new livery in September 2015 to coincide with the start of a newly extended contract that was subsequently extended to run ...
Four bidders pre-qualified for the 2013 Great Western passenger franchise: clockwise from top left, Arriva, Stagecoach, First and National Express Expressions of interest in bidding for the new franchise were called for in December 2011 [12] and in March 2012 it was announced that Arriva UK Trains, FirstGroup, National Express and Stagecoach had been shortlisted to bid.
Analysis of the latest Office of Rail and Road data found 208,000 services were fully axed in the year to November 9, with a further 161,000 part-cancelled
Great Western Railway (GWR) also launched a pay-as-you-go system called GWR PAYG in August 2022, which requires the use of the GWR Touch smartcard. [2] [3] Transport for Wales (TFW/TrC) have also started rolling out a Pay-as-you-go system using EMV cards from February 7th 2024 across South East Wales. [4] [5]
Great Western Railway; Rhymney Railway 51 miles (82 km) Taff Vale Railway 124 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (199 km) These amalgamated on 1 January 1922, and the company continued to use the name Great Western Railway, and its new board of directors included representatives from all seven of the constituent companies.
The line to Basingstoke had originally been built by the Berks and Hants Railway as a broad-gauge route in an attempt to keep the standard gauge of the LSWR out of Great Western territory but, in 1857, the GWR and LSWR opened a shared line to Weymouth on the south coast, the GWR route being via Chippenham and a route initially started by the ...
The C&GWUR needed an act of Parliament, the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. xxiv), passed on 11 June 1838, for an extension of time, and the Birmingham company secured clauses in it enabling them to build the relevant portion themselves if the C&GWUR did not proceed with the construction in a timely way.