Sir,

Last September, I wrote a letter to the Tenby Observer asking why the super Great Western train service stopped running their train here a week before Tenby Arts Festival starts. So what happened? It is the same again this year! (Surely Tenby wants to attract as many people as possible to their lovely town and festival?) Actually, sadly, I think we've seen the last of these trains here ever again due to the end of the EGW franchise.

My questions to the public and people in Tenby:

1. Who wouldn't love to come (or leave!) Tenby by a comfortable, roomy express train? (Hire a car when you get here if necessary or support the local economy and use public transport). Again sadly there isn't really the standard (you only have to look at the stations to see that!), so that's why most people come here by car.

2. Sundays (are they still a day off?) and Cardiff (vastly improved), Wales' capital city, and a huge magnet for over 35,000 students (and 15 million vistiors a year from all over the world) and yet poor old Tenby can't tap into this for a day trip for visitors on a Sunday, as the first train doesn't arrive in town until after 3 pm - disgraceful!

3. We have a remarkable, truly beautiful, historic town here (and what remote location in the UK would'nt give their eye teeth for a rail connection) and yet - I ask the public to form their own opinion, but just who can influence business and decision-makers to drive up the standards for the local economy?

Is there anyone out there who's got more influence than I've got please!

Get in touch

William Bennet Rogers,

114 Campbell Drive,

Windsor Quay,

Cardiff.