GO-OP’s ambition is to commence passenger services in Summer 2022, with passenger routes planned between Bishops Lydeard (a station on the independent West Somerset Railway, not currently served by the main or connecting lines) and Swindon, via poorly served locations in Somerset and Wiltshire.
The volume of services on this route will initially be:
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Some of the main benefits are:
GO-OP’s plan is to begin with a modest operation of just two train sets in operation at the same time so as to test systems and trains with minimal impact on the wider network. This means that the timetable must necessarily rely heavily on interchange with other operators services, and our timetable will consist of a few long distance movements combined with a number of short distance shuttles.
GO-OP now have run times for the sections of the route calculated precisely and to the standards of the network code, and a path analysis that confirms our timetable to Westbury and Swindon is compliant with other operators needs.