First pass at Autumn timetable.    Part of me is p*ssed that the timetable changed unexpectedly on 10th September (such short notice that the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) timetable change posted got the change wrong!) ... the other part of me is delighted that we now have a year round service all day every day.   What a big marketing boost with the addition of the early Sunday service through to Chippenham - indeed to Swindon from 10th December!

The Adventure starts here:  http://atrebatia.info/tt_autumn_2017.pdf

I thought about that before I posted, and decided that "day" means daytime - from around 8 in the morning til 6 at night.   It means that people working during the day can use the train, including (now, just) people working in retail in Swindon on a Sunday.

There should be a later train that 18:32 from Westbury on a Saturday ... and later that the 19:35 (ish) the rest of the week.   A further cycle of the same unit?   Understand another crew would be needed and (commenting here in a slightly private area) we have been quoted what looks like the price of a complete shift for driver and conductor, with a need for two of each to run 7 days.  4 staff at £how-much each, plus operating cost of train and track access charges and you'll see it's an awful lot of money.  Need to find something else to do with the crew / train, or have it more sensibly integrated at another timetabling point.