| Re: Bath to Melksham on a Sunday Posted by grahame at 13:57, 3rd August 2026 |     |
A friend was reminded (by an intrusion of reality into a sunny day full of type 3 fun) that on Sunday only the last Faresaver bus from Bath to Devizes leaves Bath just before 7pm. He *did* manage to catch that service after heading for the bus stop at a trot.
(After that, there's an option by train, the 9.13pm from Bath into a somewhat relaxed connection to Melksham which sort-of shows the value of having a train service that's more than the bare-bones one as first re-introduced.)
Mark
(After that, there's an option by train, the 9.13pm from Bath into a somewhat relaxed connection to Melksham which sort-of shows the value of having a train service that's more than the bare-bones one as first re-introduced.)
Mark
Sunday evening is a real issue.
You refer to "First Introduction". At the time that the Coffeen Shop was founded, there weren't just two Sunday trains on the TransWilts. The Service Level Commitment on First from December 2006 called for two trains each way per day Monday to Saturday, and two trains from Westbury to Swindon on a Sunday. The two trains ran at about 18:00 and 20:00 from Westbury as I recall, both the same physical train and running back empty between the two services.
One of our first victories-for-common-sense was to have the train return in passenger service, followed summer 2011 with a Chamber of Commerce Commerce supported service early in the morning on 7 summer Sundays, with the early train from Westbury to Weymouth starting back from Swindon. An interesting summer and we have to be very careful not to oversell / overfill the trains on those Sundays.
Edit note: Minor typo corrected, purely for clarity. CfN.
| Bath to Melksham on a Sunday Posted by Mark A at 13:05, 3rd August 2026 | |
A friend was reminded (by an intrusion of reality into a sunny day full of type 3 fun) that on Sunday only the last Faresaver bus from Bath to Devizes leaves Bath just before 7pm. He *did* manage to catch that service after heading for the bus stop at a trot.
(After that, there's an option by train, the 9.13pm from Bath into a somewhat relaxed connection to Melksham which sort-of shows the value of having a train service that's more than the bare-bones one as first re-introduced.)
Mark
