{"id":3998,"date":"2015-08-26T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:27:12","slug":"new-sw-train-services-will-revitalise-templecombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"New SW train services will revitalise Templecombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New services to begin on 14 December<\/strong><br \/>\nA massive upgrade to Templecombe train services \u00a0 has been announced by SW Trains, including extra seating capacity, a half hour service and connections to Yeovil Pen Mill. Templecombe passengers can now travel to Weymouth, Dorchester, Westbury, \u00a0Bath and Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>The new services will provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Half-hourly train services from London to Tisbury, Gillingham, Templecombe, Sherborne and Yeovil Junction between 15:20 and 19:20*<\/li>\n<li>10 trains every week day connecting Yeovil Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill<\/li>\n<li>Two new daily services connecting Bruton directly with London for the first time<\/li>\n<li>Two new daily direct services between Castle Cary and Frome and Basingstoke, Woking and Clapham Junction<\/li>\n<li>Yeovil Junction, Sherborne and Templecombe have two additional trains in the mid-afternoon \u2013 13:50 from London Waterloo and 16:07 from \u00a0Templecombe<\/li>\n<li>Yeovil Pen Mill will have six direct trains from and two trains to London Waterloo each week day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Templecombe highlights<\/strong><br \/>\nAdditional weekday service to London Waterloo at 16:10<br \/>\nHalf hourly service from London between 15:20 and 19:20<br \/>\nThree additional services from London, departing Waterloo at 13:50, 15:50 and 18:50<br \/>\nFive direct services each weekday to Yeovil Pen Mill<\/p>\n<p>As well as the new and increased services, South West Trains has also introduced a rolling programme to refurbish all 30 of the class 159 trains on the West of England route. The diesel trains, which are the most reliable of their kind, will provide an improved quality of service and comfort.<br \/>\n<strong>Extended services &#8211; details:<\/strong><br \/>\n12:50 Waterloo to Salisbury is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill via Frome<br \/>\n16:48 Yeovil Junction to Waterloo via Frome (attaching to 16:25 Exeter to Waterloo at Salisbury)<br \/>\n16:18 Gillingham to Waterloo starts from Yeovil Pen Mill at 15:45<br \/>\n13:50 Waterloo to Gillingham is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill<br \/>\n15:50 Waterloo to Gillingham is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill<br \/>\n16:50 Waterloo to Yeovil Junction is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill<br \/>\n17:50 Waterloo to Yeovil Junction is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill<br \/>\n18:50 Waterloo to Salisbury is extended to Yeovil Pen Mill<br \/>\n<strong>New services &#8211; details:<\/strong><br \/>\n16:30 Yeovil Pen Mill to Yeovil Junction<br \/>\n18:30 Yeovil Pen Mill to Yeovil Junction<br \/>\n19:26 Yeovil Pen Mill to Salisbury***<br \/>\n20:27 Yeovil Pen Mill to Salisbury***<br \/>\n21:30 Yeovil Pen Mill to Yeovil Junction<br \/>\n*** Service still subject to agreement by the Rail Regulator<br \/>\n<em>All information provided by SW Trains<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sadly the new services will not be steam-driven, but you can&#8217;t have everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New services to begin on 14 December A massive upgrade to Templecombe train services \u00a0 has been announced by SW Trains, including extra seating capacity, a half hour service and connections to Yeovil Pen Mill. Templecombe passengers can now travel to Weymouth, Dorchester, Westbury, \u00a0Bath and Bristol. The new services will provide: Half-hourly train services &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New SW train services will revitalise Templecombe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-12u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4000,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}