| Re: Home to Taunton - options and fares from local stations Posted by JayMac at 11:34, 23rd October 2025 |     |
0721 Melksham - Chippenham 0730
(0734)0809 Chippenham - Bristol TM (0803)0836
(0845)0856 Bristol TM - Taunton (0915)0955
Bracketed times predicated on making unnofical 4 minute connection at Chippenham and the 0845 CrossCountry running.
Melksham - Bristol TM. Anytime Day Return £10.25
Bristol TM - Taunton. Off Peak Day Return £12.05
Return would have to via Bristol too but there are no evening time restrictions.
Total (with Railcard) £22.40
| Re: Home to Taunton - options and fares from local stations Posted by grahame at 11:33, 23rd October 2025 | |
And it's on days like this - planning an outbound trip towards the South West tomorrow - that I would love to see those four extra trains a day that have been [specified/pathed/described] as part of the Goop / Open Access proposals. Looking at the current passenger schedules, and ensuring no clashes on the single line, I dream of extra trains calling at Melksham at:
Northbound - 06:10
Northbound - 08:50
Northbound - 15:20
Northbound - 17:40
Southbound - 07:40
Southbound - 10:30
Southbound - 16:55
Southbound - 20:00
They would fill - well - so many gaps across the busiest outbound and inbound travel times of day. To complicate matters, I might well suggest some modest retiming in the evening of existing trains. And, rather sadly, I feel the need to remind readers and anyone who says "what a great idea" (it is!) of the need to have enough staff of the right type, in the right place, with the right training to run them and the other trains too.
Still missing that sole "A bit before 9am" train through to Penzance from Swindon, Chippenham, Bath Spa, with its easement allowing off peak travel. There's now a service at a bit before 7:30 am from Bath and with no easement. Was the pre-2018ish service into Taunton by 9:40 and Exeter a bit after 10?
Mark
Mark
MarkA - tomorrow from Bath, it's change at Bristol for Taunton and I see that GWR are flagging up that the Cross Country train it connects into is potentially disrupted by Industial Action.
| Re: Home to Taunton - options and fares from local stations Posted by Mark A at 09:43, 23rd October 2025 | |
Still missing that sole "A bit before 9am" train through to Penzance from Swindon, Chippenham, Bath Spa, with its easement allowing off peak travel. There's now a service at a bit before 7:30 am from Bath and with no easement. Was the pre-2018ish service into Taunton by 9:40 and Exeter a bit after 10?
Mark
| Home to Taunton - options and fares from local stations Posted by grahame at 06:31, 23rd October 2025 | |
I live in Melksham - here's GWR's offering for tomorrow (24th October 2025) to Taunton
from Trowbridge
and from Westbury
If I chose to go from Chippenham
or from Bath Spa
Best option? Likely (time wise) to be the 07:21 from Melksham, change at Chippenham and arrive into Taunton at 09:17 ... or at 09:55 if the 07:21's running late. Not offered to me, and goodness knows what price. Now - did I mention the bus ...
