Cosham stops

[Halsebee]

I've been looking at changing trains at Cosham from the Cardiff/Bristol- Portsmouth service to the Southampton Brighton service, and note that a lot of the Cardiff/Bristol-Portsmouth services don't stop at Cosham any more.
Last time I looked, 2-3 years ago, I think practically all did stop at Cosham. Why has this changed?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Not sure why its changed, but does maybe changing trains at Southampton Central, Fareham or even Fratton, not still give onward journey opportunities if travelling towards Brighton?

 

[Halsebee]

Yes it does, particularly now Southampton-Brighton is 30 minutely. There's no issue for interchange with not stopping at Cosham, I'm just interested in why the change was made

 

[Johnny Lewis]

Evening GWR trains (after about 8pm) haven't called at Cosham for a good while now - I think this was due to local vandalism issues.

Three weekday off-peak GWR trains in each direction no longer call at Cosham to improve the punctuality / reliability of these services. This was done initially as a trial, to see if removing the call actually did make any difference, but evidently the outcome of the trial hasn't been conclusive, so it's still ongoing.