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March 21, 2008
Not a Swiss clock railway this morning
A Typical Morning in my Hotelier's diary here in Melksham, Wiltshire. The end-of-the-week business guests are leaving and making for their next destinations - the intenational set today (for the UK based folks left yesterday, today being Good Friday)
"When's the train ... I'm going to London for the day before flying our tomorrow". And then I face the embarrasment of telling my customers that although we have a station in the town, we have no trains today. "Someone suggested Chippenham to me" says my customer, but I offer to go look it up, and discover that journey times from Chippenham are two and a half hours today, with a bus ride to Reading of a train dogleg via Bath! I end up sending my customer to Westbury - from where a 90 minutes ride (at least that is the schedule!) ride will get her to Paddington before half past nine.
My guest if from Switzerland ... and can't understand why we have a railway line but no trains today, and why there's so much contrary advise and changes.
Posted by gje at March 21, 2008 07:41 AM