Memorandum from Mr Ed Bonney

 

 

 

 

I want to drawn your attention to the atrocious train service from Plymouth to the North West of England now that the previous through services no longer exist. Persons who wish to travel to Preston, Lancaster or Glasgow now have to change trains at Birmingham.

 

No only does this lengthen the journey time but it often means joining an over-crowded London to Glasgow train with no assurance that one's reserved seats are available. Members of my family have experienced several nightmare journeys and quite simply I want the old through service Plymouth to Glasgow- to resume. Sad to say it was far quicker and easier for me to travel "up North" when I was first posted here in 1979. Since then the South West has become the poor relation of the

railways.

 

When is someone going to try to redress this unfair discrimination? Far from having a modern service the S W is made to put up with feeder lines to join inadequate services. Both my wife and I are in our late sixties and find the modern journey exhausting-please do something to improve matters. There is more at stake than our personal inconvenience here.

 

Is there no modern railway transport plan for the S W, or are our masters content to treat Plymouth and Cornwall as a backwater?

 

 

 

Ed Bonney

Plymouth, Devon