Caught between a rock and a hard place - I had four customers yesterday who were leaving Melksham at around 5 p.m. and needed to catch a train to London.   Should I suggest they wait for the next train at 19:50, or give them a lift to Chippenham?   Lift to Chippenham it was ... and here are some pictures I took on the way back.







These are all on the notorious A350 that runs parallel with the TransWilts railway - and I was helping create the congestion.   Basically, it was solid from North of Melksham right around the bypass - just the weight of traffic as there were no roadworks.

And an interesting illustration of the potential traffic for a train running at about 5 p.m. up from Melksham to Chippenham and Swindon ... and coming back perhaps half an hour to an hour later!

Come to think of it - we used to have a 17:02, and I don't remember too many nights on the road like this.  Perhaps that's because I was usually on the trains!