I can see why GWR would object to TfW making a bid to run services into Bristol but it's a bit naughty that they state they already provide three trains an hour on that axis as that's not the case when I've returned that way from Cardiff or Newport of an evening, when the service is hourly (and, as I've twice, recently, unluckily hit a short-notice cancellation which has turned things into a one and three quarter hour wait followed by a change at Bristol and a half hour wait there too.)

That aside, perhaps TfW's proposal wouldn't sort services during the thinner parts of the day too. I'd also be well in favour of either GWR, or GBR, or TfW, strengthening provision on the Bristol - Hereford - Shrewsbury - Chester axis. When Regional Railways put just a few services into that, in terms of passenger loadings, between Bristol and Hereford in particular, they promptly started to run hot.

Mark