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Title: Closed for 9 days in August Post by: tramway on July 14, 2009, 15:26:33 From the FGW website.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=4106 Anyone aware of the reason for the engineering work? Title: Re: Closed for 9 days in August Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on July 14, 2009, 16:47:19 mad thing is i think you will find on that week all replacement busses will stop at melksham so it will get increased frequency but not on rails :(
Title: Re: Closed for 9 days in August Post by: grahame on July 14, 2009, 17:43:26 The service provided will actually be worse. There is just one bus a day on the Monday to Friday, at 05:20 (yes, Twenty past five in the morning) Swindon to Westbury ... and another bus just from Chippenham to Westbury at 18:30. Services from Westbury leave at 06:53 and 19:50, again just to Chippenham. So three out of four journeys that are usually through ones will involve a change; there are no extras, as far as I can make out.
The buses are allowed 53 minutes between Chippenham and Westbury, as compared to the train taking 25. So that's all journey times doubled. I spoke with Sonia at National rail on behalf of the large number proportion of cycle users in the Melksham traffic. She tells me that there are no alternative arrangements for taking cycles, and that as "it's only 20 minutes on the bus to Chippenham, so not very far. You should cycle to Chippenham station". Title: Re: Closed for 9 days in August Post by: rogerw on July 14, 2009, 18:16:34 Perhaps you should invite Sonia to cycle along the A350 with you!
Title: Re: Closed for 9 days in August Post by: moonrakerz on July 14, 2009, 21:26:50 I spoke with Sonia at National rail ................You should cycle to Chippenham station". Are you sure it was Sonia, not Sanjay in Mumbai ! - they don't seem to have much idea of the local geography ! 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 |