PASSENGERS will be able to have their say about rail services operated by First Great Western at a special investigation.

The public investigation will look at all aspects of the service operated by the company, which runs high-speed trains between London and the south west, serving Chippenham, Bath, Swindon, and Westbury.

The meeting is being held on December 3 in the Stratton Room at Swindon Thistle Hotel, in Fleming Way, at 7.30pm.

It is being organised by consumer watchdogs, the Rail Passengers' Committees Western England and Wales, and the London Transport Users' Committee.

It is the first of a series of meetings being arranged as part of an investigation provided under the Great Western rail franchise.

RPC Western chairman Chris Irwin, lives in Bishops Cannings, near Devizes, and is a regular traveller from Pewsey Station.

He aid: "The aim of the meeting is for us to hear from as many people as possible in the area what they think of Great Western services.

"We want a constructive discussion about past, current and future problems.

"First Great Western are fully participating in the investigation, and we want to work with them, Railtrack and others to secure improvements for rail passengers."