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The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1249 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Monday, 21st August 2006 I've just received a new timetable for the 234 route ... undated. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1250 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Monday, 21st August 2006 For my own purposes, I've worked out what the new bus service offers to weekday travellers to and from Melksham and put together a combined timetable to work from - we're already getting bookings / enquiries for December at work! [url]http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/loncombined.html[/url] I've never been thrilled with the idea of telling my customers to catch a bus rather than a train; there's something of a psychological block for many of them, but I must admit that it's better to ask them to connect at Chipenham station than asking them to have to slog across a town they probably don't know. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1258 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 22nd August 2006 Llooks like there may be more Melksham bus plus tickers being sold. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1260 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 23rd August 2006 [quote author=Sion Bretton link=topic=424.msg1258#msg1258 date=1156273557] Llooks like there may be more Melksham bus plus tickers being sold. [/quote] Indeed. Although the bus service seems designed for those who want to go out of Melksham in the morning, and return in the evening, and I'm not sure that the bus drivers can issue bus-and-train tickets, can they? Unless people have planned ahead, I suspect that they'll end up paying for the bus from Melksham to Chippenham and then for the train from Chippenham to xxxx. Except for the very determined who read the official bus timetable carefully and see that they can go via the bus station in Chippenham to reach Melksham by getting on the Northbound 234 and saying on it when it returns Southbound (and do the opposite stuff going the other way), the first train from London for Melksham with a bus connection doesn't leave until 15:00 from Paddington, and the last bus with a connection for London leaves at 10:24 in the morning. Scarcely designed, it would seem, to encourage inbound traffic. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1278 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 25th August 2006 [color=Purple]Please treat the timings above as provisional.[/color] I've just got an amendment notice that shows the LAST bus of the day from Melksham to Chippenham Station at 09:24 not 10:24, and shows an extra return service at 15:15 from Chippenham Station. Further, the Saturday morning bus from Chippenham Station to Melksham appears to have been withdrawn before it even started running - perhaps through lack of custom :D I now have a 17th Septmber commencement date for the new service. From Melksham at 07:21, 08:05, and 09:24 (ONLY). From Chippenham Station at 15:15, 16:35, 17:35,18:34, 19:24, 20:44 and 22:10. All services Monday to Saturday, but note that the 08:05 bus leaves at 08:12 on Saturdays and School Holidays. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/1720 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 24th October 2006 Yes the bus go to the railway station, but on the timetables at bus stop Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/2014 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 21st November 2006 I have checked the Bus time-tables at Station (Chippenham) still do not show times 234 calls at the Station. Re: The 234 bus - Chippenham, STATION, Melksham, Trowbridge, Frome - 424/5442 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 29th May 2007 And nearly a year after we started this thread, there are STILL not signs for the Melksham bus up at Chippenham Station. link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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