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Topic: 21st to 24th March - more bustitution (Read 2559 times)
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Graham Ellis
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Friday 21 until Monday 24 March. Westbury to Swindon via Melksham
From Friday 21 (Good Friday) until approximately 1700 on Monday 24 (Easter Monday) March 2008 buses will be replacing trains between Westbury and Swindon.
Customers are advised to use the journey planner to check journey times before travelling.
In 2004 / 2005 - with 5 trains a day each way on Monday to Friday, 4 round trips on Saturdays and 3 on Sundays, the TransWilts was a bustling little line over public holidays - some of my best crowd pictures were taken at the August Bank Holiday in 2005 ... Oh SRA / DfT / FGW - what have you done. I hope you're pleased with yourselves! |
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tramway
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Bank holiday weekends are always going to be targeted for engineering works, and there will be somewhere on the network that the opportunity is taken not to hit regular commuters. I’m unsure exactly where it is around our neck of the woods, but I’m sure there’s a poster at Trowbridge which mentions it.
We are not the only country to do this, I’ve travelled to Holland at Easter for the past few years and been caught in bus replacement services.
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Graham Ellis
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Bank holiday weekends are always going to be targeted for engineering works ....
Agreed, and understood. Our frustration comes from the level of these engineering works - in one year I counted 31 weekends out or 52 where at least 10% of trains (often far more) were effected. And in the last 3 months now I think we have had a full, regular service on just one (possibly 2) weekends. |
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