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Sion Bretton
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234 Bus Melksham to Chippenham
« on: April 06, 2006, 06:02:47 PM »

Looking at the new bus time table for 234 Chippenham to Frome via Melksham /Trowbridge onlt 1 bus starts from Chippenham Railway Station on Monday to Friday on College Days Only  Huh

see: http://www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/southwest/somerset/timetables/timetable.php?day=1&source_id=2&service=234&routeid=435444

And still not running any buses on Sudays.
So how can they say buses link up with the trains as you have to walk  from Bath Road up Station Hill, no fun if it is  raining and bags to carry.

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Re: 234 Bus Melksham to Chippenham
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2006, 07:09:58 AM »

Sion, that link gave me a page of errors ...

Warning: mysql_result(): Unable to jump to row 0 on MySQL result index 17 in/home/www/firstgroup/public_html/ukbus/timetables/timetable1.php on line2465

They should come to use - we give MySQL course and also PHP course.

Back on topic ... I found a link for a 234 timetable up to 26th May 2006; my contact at First Bus had said "From May", so perhaps the revised service starts on 27th May?   Let's keep watching - I think we may see changes at the next iteration!
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Re: 234 Bus Melksham to Chippenham
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2006, 08:35:10 AM »

You are right Graham link not working, now, but itwas last night.
Let hope they change timetable at end of May 2006. I did not notice it was up to 27/5/06.
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Re: 234 Bus Melksham to Chippenham
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2006, 12:33:00 PM »

An update ....

a) In March, I heard from a "reliable source" that the 234 bus was to be diverted to serve Chippenham station.  The implication was that it was for the standard route - i.e. all services and NOT just the 1 college service.

b) Subsequent correspondence with the local First bus company told me that this HAD been mentioned as part of the First Great Western bid, but it had turned out in the end that the very short bus turn around time in Chippenham would not allow for the service to add the station in to the places it served. In the absence of an extra 100,000 per annum income or subsidy, the diversion was NOT going to happen. End of story.

c) At the meeting addressed by Chris Graying and Michael Ancram yesterday, the senior First Great Western representative said that he "wouldn't be so sure" when I said that the bus would not be serving Chippenham Station.

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