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Title: Summer 2021 to Weymouth from Melksham (and from Swindon and Chippenham) Post by: grahame on June 15, 2021, 10:16:34 I heard from GWR yesterday that two extra trains are running from Westbury / Bristol to Weymouth on Saturdays this summer, staring on 10th July. More importantly, they's coming back at times that offer good connections back to Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon which was lacking until this point.
Summer 2021 - days out by train to WEYMOUTH Day return on any of these trains - £19.60 adult, £9.80 child Adult tickets for groups of 3 travelling together - £12.90 each Senior, disabled and many other railcards - £12.90 per person any day Two together railcards - £12.90 per person at weekends only Monday to Friday Melksham Westbury Weymouth 09:10 09:26-09:32 11:00 Saturdays Melksham Westbury Weymouth 08:59 through train 10:56 09:59 10:15-10:29 12:08 Sundays Melksham Westbury Weymouth 10:05 through train 11:55 13:41 through train 15:51 Monday to Friday Weymouth Westbury Melksham 17:23 18:53-20:06 20:21 Saturday Weymouth Westbury Melksham 16:10 17:40-18:35 18:50 16:54 18:22-18:35 18:50 EXTRA from 10th July to 13th August (and perhaps later) 17:28 19:01-20:05 20:20 18:28 19*59-20:05 20:20 EXTRA from 10th July to 13th August (and perhaps later) * - Estimated Sunday Weymouth Westbury Melksham 16:10 17:39-18:35 18:50 17:53 19:33-20:20 20:35 Services / connections to Weymouth were already good, 7 days a week, for the summer. Return journeys every day of the week had a long wait at Westbury - the last thing you would want with the children, but good if you wanted to pop down to the pub at the Bottom of Station Approach for a quick bar meal. On Saturdays from 10th July this is fixed. Two caveats: Quote The extra Westbury/Weymouth service will start from Saturday 10 July, and will run throughout the first two phases of the Bristol Rail Regeneration work which finishes on Saturday 13 August. We are now waiting final confirmation of the timetable plan for the next phase of the Bristol work, which will take the service through to Saturday 5 September. As soon as I have news on this I will let you know. As always, and particularly when there are major engineering works, we recommend that customers check their journey before they travel, and book tickets in advance. While these trains are not reservable we do have a counted places system in operation on our Weymouth route to help with social distancing. Title: Re: Summer 2021 to Weymouth from Melksham (and from Swindon and Chippenham) Post by: bobm on June 15, 2021, 11:27:39 Quote 18:28 19*59-20:05 20:20 EXTRA from 10th July to 13th August (and perhaps later) RealTimeTrains shows this as arriving at 19:56 making a more robust connection. Title: Re: Summer 2021 to Weymouth from Melksham (and from Swindon and Chippenham) Post by: grahame on June 15, 2021, 12:49:49 Quote 18:28 19*59-20:05 20:20 EXTRA from 10th July to 13th August (and perhaps later) RealTimeTrains shows this as arriving at 19:56 making a more robust connection. Ah, yes, thanks. It's faster than the norm, missing out Chetnole, Yetminster and Thornford. 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 |