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Title: Don't bother with the train - quicker to walk. Post by: grahame on November 17, 2018, 19:47:44 Looking up (retrospectively) journeys from Exeter Central to Melksham yesterday (as one does), I couldn't help noticing the advise to not bother with the train from Central down to St. David's but rather to walk it ... 15:24 departure on foot, 15:39 train from St David's to Westbury, 17:12 to Trowbridge, 8 minute walk from the station there to Fore Street and the ZigZag bus to Melksham.
More or less what I had actually done ... though I caught the train a couple of minutes earlier down the hill in Exeter; I note that cutting the maximum walk distance on traveline, though, switched me to a bus from Central to St. Davids - what HAVE they got against the train?? https://www.traveline.info I wish traveline took account of overall price, ease of ticketing, and offered fallback data in case a connection misses. Title: Re: Don't bother with the train - quicker to walk. Post by: Surrey 455 on November 18, 2018, 09:30:07 You may also notice that https://www.traveline.info often gives different suggestions to those provided by Traveline South west (http://www.travelinesw.com/) and Traveline South east & anglia (http://www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk). Quite why that is I do not know.
Title: Re: Don't bother with the train - quicker to walk. Post by: Cornish bobby on November 21, 2018, 19:47:00 Certainly quicker to walk from Central to St David's than St David's to Central. :)
Title: Re: Don't bother with the train - quicker to walk. Post by: njt on November 22, 2018, 21:30:30 You may also notice that https://www.traveline.info often gives different suggestions to those provided by Traveline South west (http://www.travelinesw.com/) and Traveline South east & anglia (http://www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk). Quite why that is I do not know. Different Journey Planning engines sit underneath the national and regional Traveline services. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |