3 May 2008 - The Good News and the Bad News?

The Good News is that from Dec 15th 2008 there will be six HST's ( 3 UP and 3 DOWN) stopping at Ivybridge. The UP services will give Ivybridge a direct service to London (Paddington) for the first time since the station opened.**  The times given at present are:- 10.01, 12.15 and 17.11 to Paddington and the down services are:- 12.07,17.10 and 23.12.

The Bad News is that these services are NOT additional and will most likely to be replacing the 11.25,13.48 and 16.59  UP services and the 10.16,13.09 and 17.58 DOWN services.

This is not good news for the many schoolchildren who travel back from Plymouth and are at present catching the 16.44 (which is late enough as this train used to leave at 16.10) will now have to wait a further 12 minutes to return home. 

We hope to be able to infuence FGW on the timings of their HST's before the final timetables are released.

**  South West Trains already run a twice daily service to London Waterloo