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1  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: August 23, 2023, 08:33:46
Please note, though, that any suggestion that adds a couple of minutes to the elapsed time between leaving Paddington and arriving into Bristol has quite a hurdle to jump before it gets serious consideration.

Understood. How about bringing the Worcester Foregate Street service forward a minute? (I believe that would be sufficient based on your previous comment http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=27514.msg334333#msg334333.)
2  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: August 23, 2023, 07:42:20
Sadly, it's a "VAR" (varied timetable change) and the "WTT (Working Time-Table)" - (Working TimeTable) remains at 07:34.
Thanks grahame - I suspected it was too good to be true Sad
Quote from: grahame
No harm in asking for a tweaking in December.
How do I do that?
3  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: August 22, 2023, 14:24:19
Looking at the connection at Chippenham, it looks like you're now due in there at 07:30 and the Bristol train leaves at 07:34 - meaning you are 1 minute short of being able to claim delay-repay each time it misses. Embarrassed
Didn't see any announcement but the 07:34 (to Weston) is now the 07:36. Probably why the guard held it for a minute yesterday to allow those of us on the late running service from Melksham to leg it across the platform - much appreciated Smiley
4  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: May 25, 2023, 16:35:31
All good this morning.

And if I do miss the (unofficial) connection, but not by much, there's enough time to console myself with a free sausage roll from Greggs in Chippenham. Those are courtesy of the Virgin train tickets app, which gives you 3 (Virgin Red) points per £1 spent, and said rolls are 200 points. So I only need 5 of my £14 Melksham-Bristol commutes per roll - I had enough points for 8 last time I checked Smiley

The app doesn't charge a fee, and works better than the GWR (Great Western Railway) one (although I haven't used the latter for a while). Other Greggs products are available - see https://www.virgin.com/virgin-red/spend-virgin-points
5  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: May 24, 2023, 12:45:47
... the Bristol train leaves at 07:34 (not sure where you got 07:35 from?)
Neither am I Smiley
6  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Station Passenger Usage - a snapshot, May 2023 on: May 22, 2023, 14:05:50
To note - the 07:53 becomes 08:02 from Monday.  Sensible for most people as it helps to even out services. However a couple of concerns from users - a missed connection into the super fast from Chippenham to London, and a missed connection into a bus to college at Swindon Station; that latter may mean students having to leave home half an hour earlier.
Good to see you working hard at Melksham last Thursday Grahame on my 2 day a week commute to Bristol. I mentioned that the timetable changes weren't going to affect me - the 0721 to Chippenham is unchanged (although it now terminates at Worcester). However...

I only noticed this morning that the 0742 Chippenham-Bristol service that I connect with now departs at 0735, reducing the leeway to only 5 minutes. And sure enough, this morning the Melksham train was delayed due to a late running Bristol-Paddington service, so I missed my connection and had about 35 minutes to kill at Chippenham before the next Bristol service at 0809. In fact that's now the official route if you request a Melksham-Bristol ticket on the GWR (Great Western Railway) (and others presumably) website.

I guess I just have to suck it up, and celebrate the odd occasion when the fates are with me and I catch the 0735. Could be worse - at least I'm not one of the unfortunate ex-users of the 0533...
7  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 14, 2023, 16:50:52
Yes, but I would hate to try to fully explain it.
Good effort! Smiley
8  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 14, 2023, 09:44:18
Just noticed something else - although you can save 20p by buying a return from Melksham instead of Chippenham to get from CPM» (Chippenham - next trains) to Bristol Temple Meads, if you try the same trick to get from CPM to Bath Spa (the stop before BRI» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains)), you end up paying an extra £1.60! (£10 vs. £8.40)

Is there some logic there?
9  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 14, 2023, 08:25:07
Great - looking forward to it  Roll Eyes
10  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 13, 2023, 20:49:27
Thanks Grahame. BTW (by the way) do you know how the early morning (~7:20) Melksham-Chippenham service is doing these days? I used to commute that way, before lockdown, but am currently in Chippenham which makes getting to & from BRI» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains) significantly easier. However, I will be returning to Melksham shortly; is my commute likely to be better/same/worse than pre-lockdown in terms of service reliability?
11  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 13, 2023, 09:33:54
(Regarding BTM (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI))/BRI» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains): yes, it should be BRI if it was a Network Rail(?) station abbreviation, but it isn't - it's an English language abbreviation Smiley
 (although I guess on this site the former is the norm))
12  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Chippenham - Bristol; cheaper from Melksham? on: March 13, 2023, 09:17:56
Hi - just noticed that an Anytime return from Melksham to Bristol Temple Meads is £14, whereas it's £14.20 from Chippenham. The preferred route from Melksham to BTM (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) is via a change at Chippenham (Trowbridge is the other route), so for my Chippenham-BTM commute can I save a whole 20p by buying a Melksham-BTM ticket?

I know there are rules about breaking your journey, but this implies it would be ok:
https://www.thetrainline.com/trains/great-britain/ticket-types/anytime-train-tickets

Cheers
John
13  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Rail User Group (and meetings for 2019) on: January 04, 2019, 15:01:40
Fascinating old pictures of Melksham station
Here: http://www.mrug.org.uk/history.html

Compare with: http://www.mrug.org.uk/photos.html Sad
14  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: Melksham Rail User Group (and meetings for 2019) on: January 04, 2019, 13:40:51
A fresh lick of paint has been applied to the Melksham Rail User Group website at http://www.mrug.org.uk.
Don't think I'd seen that before - looks good.

Fascinating old pictures of Melksham station - proper station building(s), 2 tracks with platforms on both sides, and a footbridge. How many of those are in the current Melksham expansion plans? Smiley

Seriously I'm glad Melksham has been restored back to where it is now, and very much appreciate the work Graham and others have done, and are doing, to keep moving forwards. The improvements are obvious in the <3 years I've been in the area.
15  Journey by Journey / TransWilts line / Re: 2019 - TransWilts cancellation and amendments log on: January 04, 2019, 13:17:21
The 2 trains that pass through Melksham at 12-something on the way to Swindon (my commute) were also cancelled, as is the 14:40 (13:10 from Frome).

I'd already decided to work from home after the 07:49 Melksham train was cancelled, and at least this time they announced it was cancelled before I'd run to the station, so it could have been worse. Just saved £9.90 £10.20.
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