Passenger counts via Melksham, July and August 2015

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[grahame]

Not exactly in the spirit of advertising the use of public transport...... cycle?

This person is nothing if not innovative ... and came up with the idea of catching the 265 bus from place-of-work to Bath, and then the late 271 from Bath to Melksham. 

22:30 Trowbridge (Centre) / 23:12 to 23:20 in Bath, 00:01 in Melksham.   91 minutes for a 10 minute rail journey.   That's current - there are changes to the 265 on 23rd August and I don't know if the connection will still work. 

Previous journey is at about 18:45 from person's place of work / 19:42 to 20:00 in Bath, 20:41 in Melksham.   Better on Monday to Friday to catch the 19:38 train to Melksham at 19:47; no service after 18:38 from Trowbridge on Saturdays from next month, though.

P.S.  Cycling from Hilperton to Semington in the dark along the road is something I would question on safety grounds; cycling along an unlit canal towpath (the alternative) is something I wouldn't recommend on the ground you would get very wet if you hit something in the dark and came off.

[grahame]

My counts (*), estimates from seeing other trains (e) and downright educated guesses for the TransWilts for yesterday



Note has been taken that the line can support a (near) clock face train each hour each way, plus extras - freight and even more passengers

[Chris from Nailsea]

P.S.  Cycling from Hilperton to Semington in the dark along the road is something I would question on safety grounds; cycling along an unlit canal towpath (the alternative) is something I wouldn't recommend on the ground you would get very wet if you hit something in the dark and came off.

I concur: while I don't have any experience of actually cycling from Hilperton to Semington in the dark along an unlit canal towpath, I have moored a narrowboat along there - and I can assure you that the overgrown vegetation is rather likely to flip a cyclist into the canal, sooner or later ... 

[grahame]

Sorry - couldn't easily count the people getting on this:



The 16:21 up train at Melksham was 25 late ... and -5 + 3 -> 57, so 62/8. Note that due to its lateness, I advised 2 passengers for Bath (which would have been a missed connection at Chippenham to a bus) to take the 272 bus directly - at about 16:35.  After all, it's about integrated transport and not being greedy for the train!.   Some got off, more on at Chippenham and we had 82 on board as we arrived into Swindon.

I don't know how many there are in the picture above, but it was a 3 car 158 and I got the impression that almost everyone was waiting for it - anyone used to guestimating numbers for me?

[Chris from Nailsea]

Your picture was taken at the rear door of the first car, so there may have been even more potential passengers standing behind you, but from that particular viewpoint, I'd estimate at least 120.