From Journey Check today :-
Melksham: Ticket Vending Machine problem
The ticket vending machines are out of order at Melksham station.
Additional Information
Please purchase tickets at the ticket office or, if unavailable, at the first available opportunity to do so when no other means of purchasing them is available at the station.
Last Updated:14/07/2017 08:10
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I bet Grahame is surprised that Melksham now has a ticket office !!!!
They're getting a bit ahead of themselves - the ticket office isn't due to open until January next year
[no, that is not a serious schedule ]
This is a good week for the ticket machine to fail. Traffic levels are seriously down because people's journeys are screwed up far and beyond just an extra 30 minutes transit time caused by taking a bus not a train between Swindon and Chippenham. And all trains that run have conductors with ticket machines who have been well able to get through from what I've seen.
Separate thread to follow (if I don't get too depressed!) about the problems the engineering works (or more importantly how remaining services and buses have been set up or not set up). Not going anything like as well as the Bath TPODs did