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TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
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TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
Posted by grahame at 08:36, 3rd October 2024
 
Yes, you HAVE found the right place - starting at 14:30, 3rd October 2024.   Hosted by the independent  Great Western Coffee Shop Passenger forum, with Daryn McCombe, the performance and train service delivery director at GWR.   Aided and abetted by colleagues at GWR and the moderator and admin team here at the Coffee Shop.

Re: TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
Posted by grahame at 14:08, 3rd October 2024
 
Also ...

For the first time you can watch on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83607799272?pwd=wPvHU9liNcdNQaM8C34XJVJ4wa2KtX.1 and join in with the follow up discussions. Meeting ID: 836 0779 9272 Passcode: 765377
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EDIT - try via https://greatwesternrailway.info/news.html

Re: TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
Posted by grahame at 16:16, 3rd October 2024
 
Many thanks - Daryn and Tom, Bryony, Chris, Tim, .. and everyone else too.  A useful hour and a half, I think.  Daryn and Tom have sprinted for their train, I am in (!) a Coffee Shop here in Swindon and will catch the "Westbury Flyer" next time it comes around.   When I get home / overnight run through the recording and to assist with all the various follow ups.

Re: TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
Posted by johnneyw at 16:35, 3rd October 2024
 
Thanks everyone for organising the session.  The new Zoom feature was a great addition.
The contents, I felt, were both thought provoking and enlightening....a mid afternoon well spent.
Thanks again.

JW



Re: TODAY! Meet the Manager - on the forum and on Zoom
Posted by grahame at 16:41, 3rd October 2024
 
And in summary ... links to all the thread which I will bung out on social media too!

Questions to GWR - Addressed by Daryn McCombe and Thomas Lydon on our forum's "Meet the Manager" session from 14:30 on 3rd October 2024. As well as the full questions you will find answer at each of these locations.

1. Infrastructure issues - particularly in the Thames Valley
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29248

2. Reliability issues - rolling stock
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29249

3. Persons hit by train - effect on services and what can we do
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29250

4. Shortage of stock / crew, reliance on overtime / rest day working
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29251

5. Ticketing and connections
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29252

6. Catering
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29253

For the first time, our "Meet the Manager" was live online via Zoom too, and in the next days I will be following up on some or perhaps all of the thread above with further notes of what was said in the live session.  Thanks to Bryony, Chris and Tim too for all the assistance in the lead up to annd during the event, where we had approaching 50 people present - a mixture of Zoom, on line regular members on the forum, and forum guests.

 
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