I went up to Swindon for an evening meeting tonight ... 7 for 7:30, finished by 8:45.  "It's 25 minutes by train from Melksham to Swindon" so that should have been easy.   Bit look at the timetable - I ended up railheading via Chippenham - very disjointed.

At Chippenham station, I looked at the departure sheets listing destinations near and far.   Our new Unitary council is very fond of talking about "Salisbury, Trowbridge and Chippenham", so why is it that the departure boards at Chippenham don't show services from there to Trowbridge or Salisbury, even though direct trains leave at 06:30 and 19:01.   Looks like the FGW hand doesn't know what the WC hand is doing!

Another meeting to be arranged ... four people from four different locations.   And a p.a. this afternoon trying to sort it out.  "I can provide a venue in Melksham".  "No - that's impractical" says the organiser. And - yes - it's a rail meeting!

You would think that heads could be gotten together to provide a practical, intergrated public transport solution, wouldn't you?  Watch this space; there are some of us getting rather tired of the same loop of "please be patient" every year.  Yes, we're patient in a practical way, but we don't want to pass away of old age while we're being patient! Let's cut out the disjoint. This should be the year of joined up thinking; it won't take much