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Topic: Melksham TIC to become a transport hub? (Read 1989 times)
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Graham Ellis
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I wrote a few minues ago:
Some fares (including Melksham - Chippenham and Melksham - Swindon) have recently been LOWERED. This means that a Chippenham to Melksham single is now just 2.80. The lowest return fare offered to London if you book on the day / train remains 105.00. For booking ahead, the FGW site lists 20 different single fares - most of them "book ahead" and with very limited availability. These tickets must be posted (extra charge) or collected ahead of time from a ticket machine at Chippenham (or other more distant) station.
Melksham's Tourist Information Centre has put in a lottery bid to become a transport hub - allowing it to sell a wide variety of travel tickets (rail tickets too - PLEASE - including the "book ahead" ones I have just mentioned.
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Graham Ellis
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Correction. I understand that a ticket issuing machine of the type that would be needed to sell train tickets at the TIC would cost 4000 pounds and that's before you start getting involved in staff training. So, regrettably, rail tickets are NOT part of the plan at present.
Is the "run on cost" for making an extra machine really 4 grand? Or is the rail industry shooting itself in the foot once again?
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