I caught the 234 bus from Chippenham railway station at 18:34 on Saturday evening.  ((See elsewhere for my comments on complete lack of information - it's a "Ghost service" that's only available to the knowing few))

FOUR joined the bus at the station, added to the 8 already on.   No-one got on or off further until Melksham.

This is the bus that replaces the 18:15 train as used to be, that used to be well loaded with returning shoppers and soccer fans - apart from myself, the other 3 who joined were hardy soccer fans.

I used to say that a rail replacemnet bus took around 10% of the passengers that a train would have taken.  On Saturday's performance, 4 peopl onto a bus equates to 40 people on a train ... yes, about right for a damp Saturday in February on a service that's unadvertised.