Ghost train (Salisbury => Weymouth)

[Schweir]

Does anyone know what is going one with this train, it is not in service, and Express Sprinters do not normally pass through Dorchester?

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Q00270/2018/01/19/advanced

 

[Kite159]

Driver training for the summer extras?

 

[vikingdriver]

Driver training for the summer extras?

Exactly what it is.

 

[Schweir]

Thanks

 

[superalbs]

Wonder if there will be any Yeovil Junction to Weymouth services, makes it a lot more accessible. Guess they did not perform well in recent years.

 

[Parallel]

Wonder if there will be any Yeovil Junction to Weymouth services, makes it a lot more accessible. Guess they did not perform well in recent years.

If they can send any additional trains via Frome, they definitely should! GWR trains are horrendously overcrowded in summer between Bristol and Weymouth. It’s not unknown to have trains that leave passengers on the platform unable to board at Trowbridge (!!) towards Weymouth during the summer. They may as well send trains that way if there is already an established market where demand surpasses capacity!

 

[GW43125]

Exactly what it is.

I thought they pulled them as the 2016 ones didn’t make enough money?

 

[vikingdriver]

I thought they pulled them as the 2016 ones didn’t make enough money?

I could be wrong but I believe the reason it did not run last year was because all the focus was on the Waterloo upgrade during the summer.

 

[Train Boy]

Wonder if there will be any Yeovil Junction to Weymouth services, makes it a lot more accessible. Guess they did not perform well in recent years.

SWR Summer Service 2018
Diagram - subject to change
5Y94 0521 Salisbury TRSMD to Basingstoke
5L11 0642 Basingstoke to Basingstoke
1L11 0722 Basingstoke to Weymouth 1031
2M00 1210 Weymouth to Yeovil Junction 1304
2O01 1412 Yeovil Junction to Weymouth 1506
5Y66 1516 Weymouth to Weymouth 1527
1L66 1654 Weymouth to London Waterloo 2019
Unknown from here

RUNS SO FROM 26/05/2018 UNTIL 08/09/2018