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Title: Train replaced by (?) Bus or Taxi Post by: grahame on January 20, 2014, 17:20:15 Quote 17:36 Swindon to Westbury due 18:21 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a train fault. Road transport will be used for services to and from Melksham. For the latest rail travel news, why not follow us on Twitter @FGW. Well ... trains break down occasionally. Glad to see that road transport is being laid on rather than a 75 minute wait, and that the information has been conveyed on this. Title: Re: Train replaced by (?) Bus or Taxi Post by: Phil on January 20, 2014, 18:45:06 Information wasn't THAT well conveyed - it consisted at Chippenham of a man walking up and down the platform shouting "Anyone for Melksham" about 2 minutes after the train was due to have departed. There was no information at Swindon other than "Cancelled" on the displays (as a consequence of which I hopped onto an HST that stopped at Chippenham hoping for the best from there, as I had happened to be on business over in Swindon today)
A taxi was provided at Chippenham for 3 of us going to Melksham. One girl was trying to get to Bratton and in two minds whether to get a train to Bath and dogleg across to Westbury. Turned out another passenger was going to Bratton as well and had his car parked at Melksham, so he gave her a lift from there. Sadly FGW lost two regular passengers today as a result of the breakdown. Can't be helped though I suppose. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |