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08:58 Bristol Parkway to Swansea
09:05 Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
09:08 Swindon to Westbury
09:35 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa
09:55 Bristol Parkway to London Paddington
10:05 Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central
10:49 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
12:30 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa
13:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
14:00 Cheltenham Spa to Swindon
15:09 Liskeard to Looe
15:29 Swindon to Cheltenham Spa
15:40 Plymouth to Penzance
15:41 Looe to Liskeard
16:35 Par to Newquay
17:00 Cheltenham Spa to London Paddington
17:09 Weston-Super-Mare to Severn Beach
17:16 Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach
17:30 London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads
17:37 London Paddington to Swansea
17:48 Bristol Temple Meads to Weymouth
17:55 Newquay to Par
18:00 Cardiff Central to Taunton
18:01 Severn Beach to Bristol Temple Meads
18:15 Penzance to Plymouth
18:35 Severn Beach to Bristol Temple Meads
19:43 Swindon to Westbury
20:00 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
20:09 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
20:11 Weymouth to Bristol Temple Meads
20:17 Taunton to Bristol Temple Meads
21:39 Bristol Temple Meads to Gloucester
22:45 London Paddington to Bristol Parkway
23:12 Bristol Temple Meads to Weston-Super-Mare
23:49 Weston-Super-Mare to Bristol Temple Meads
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Additional 07:45 Bristol Temple Meads to London Paddington
07:59 Exeter St Davids to Cardiff Central
08:06 Warminster to Swindon
08:15 Penzance to London Paddington
08:30 Bristol Parkway to Swindon
08:47 Penzance to Cardiff Central
09:07 Swindon to London Paddington
09:22 Bristol Temple Meads to Portsmouth Harbour
09:46 Exeter St Davids to Cardiff Central
10:00 Cardiff Central to Taunton
10:25 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
10:55 Cardiff Central to Penzance
10:57 Paignton to Exmouth
11:41 Swindon to Weymouth
11:50 Penzance to Cardiff Central
11:57 Cardiff Central to Exeter St Davids
12:26 Exmouth to Paignton
13:16 Taunton to Cardiff Central
14:09 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff Central
15:00 Cardiff Central to Penzance
15:35 Severn Beach to Weston-Super-Mare
16:18 Penzance to London Paddington
16:25 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
18:00 London Paddington to Penzance
18:11 Castle Cary to Swindon
19:39 Bristol Temple Meads to Worcester Shrub Hill
20:30 London Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare
20:30 Cardiff Central to Portsmouth Harbour
21:57 Worcester Shrub Hill to Bristol Temple Meads
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« on: May 07, 2022, 08:13:03 »
Event is for West Wilts Rail User Group ... friends welcome; let me know.
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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2022, 06:20:23 »
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15:05 Westbury to Swindon due 15:49
16:03 Swindon to Westbury due 16:44

16:03 Swindon to Westbury due 16:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Sarcastic THANK YOU to GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) - that's the return train at the end of the tour!
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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2022, 06:21:30 »
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15:05 Westbury to Swindon due 15:49
16:03 Swindon to Westbury due 16:44

16:03 Swindon to Westbury due 16:44 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

Sarcastic THANK YOU to GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) - that's the return train at the end of the tour!

Still going ahead - back at 15:36
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2022, 10:48:24 »
An informative half-tour, the start and end much messed about with by various cancellations of train services.

Three major teachable moments:

* You can never have enough community gardening volunteer groups: there's an opportunity for one at the station end of the underpass, where its spiral ramp circles a small grove of menacing undergrowth.

* Even with a crippled train service, the wide range of destinations of the passengers awaiting trains at Melksham.

* Exactly how bad the UK▸ (United Kingdom) is at ensuring good walking links to stations from nearby new housing - this isn't peculiar to Melksham, but it's a good example of a place where one short path would greatly ease the walk to the station from new housing and from a substantial part of the rest of the town.

Melksham's station being reached from the town by an underpass with poor sightlines, it was good to see that three teenagers were apparently spending their entire Saturday in the underpass apparently ensuring that it was safe for everyone, passing the time by making use of the acoustics down there to experiment with farmyard noises (something that is in no way illegal).

Thank you Graham for putting this together.

Mark
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