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Title: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: JayMac on August 10, 2011, 11:07:28 (Nearly) useless fact of the day:
To travel by road between Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction takes 6-7 minutes and the distance is 2^ miles. To travel by regular timetabled rail services (Pen Mill-Castle Cary-Westbury-Salisbury-Junction) takes 2^ hours and the distance is 96 miles! Title: Re: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: eightf48544 on August 10, 2011, 11:15:04 Weren't there plans to build a Southeastern curve from Yeovil Junction to the Weymouth line so that trains to and from Weymouth would serve both Junction and Pen Mill reversing at the Junction.
Title: Re: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: JayMac on August 10, 2011, 11:24:39 I'm not aware of any recent plans to do that.
Building a south east curve wouldn't be too problematical. There used to be one and the track bed is still largely there. Title: Re: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: inspector_blakey on August 10, 2011, 17:18:40 South West Coaches' service 68 currently provides a half-hourly service between the two stations for most of the day, Monday to Saturday, with a journey time of 12 minutes. Incidentally, there don't appear to be any available fares for the Pen Mill - Junction rail journey, perhaps not surprisingly!
Title: Re: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: JayMac on August 10, 2011, 23:35:49 I looked at fares. If you are dead set on catching a train between YVP and YVJ you are looking at around ^35 for a single journey. You will need more than one ticket......
Title: Re: Pen Mill - Junction. Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on August 11, 2011, 20:39:39 good old plus bus :-)
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