What is the current state of First Great Western?
An enormous amount of effort has gone in, over the last two years, to really change First Great Western. The biggest change I think has been that we’re running the trains much more punctually. Cancellations are at their lowest level ever, and we’re working hard to give customers a much better service and that’s coming through in the results. Also we’ve seen passenger journeys up in some areas. We know there is more work to do but we’re pleased with what’s been achieved, and there’s an exciting future ahead for the railway through Wiltshire. What areas still need to be improved? We want to continue improving the reliability of rolling stock. We want to make the high-speed train fleet even more reliable. We continue to work with Network Rail to invest in the network. There’s a big project at Reading station to re-signal Reading and put in extra platforms, and that will really help people from Wiltshire heading up to London, because there will be more capacity and where there are problems
