Great Western Coffee Shop

Railfuture, Severnside Branch AGM - http://www.railfuture.org.uk/tiki-index.php?page=Severnside%20Branch


Note that this coincides with "TPOD2"; anyone intending to travel from Keynsham and Oldfield Park will need to use rail replacement buses, and from Bath and beyond you'll have a choice of train to Bath and Rail replacement buses from there, or travelling via Swindon and Bristol Parkway.

Oh - my - goodness. I'm going ... looks like I need to catch the 11:26 from Melksham ... change with a long wait at Chippenham and further change to a bus at Bath, or with a long wait at Swindon.  Journey planner not offering me "via Swindon" - had to work that out for myself even though it's quicker.   Same thing on return - significant time to spend at Chippenham or Trowbridge.   Bus Melksham to Bath to Bristol looks better today - ironic for a Railfuture meeting.

And, yes, with the engineering works going on, I appreciate that there's going to be some of the lesser flows that get a pretty cr*p set of connections and - in the balance of things - probably need to be answered with "it's only one two weekends".   The posters at Melksham have the Monday to Friday changes shown - no departure list for today or tomorrow; that and the lack of information as to how to go via Swindon at the weekend (it's up at the station for Mon to Fri) is perhaps a learning point for TPOD3.