Melksham to Bath - new times for D3 bus service from 10th November 2019

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[grahame]

from Bowerhill to Bath - service D3 from 10th November 2019

Monday to Friday at:
0630 0650 0715 0742 0842 0925 1030 1130 1230 1330 1430 1530 1625 1655 1725 1916 2016 2216
Saturday at:
0742 0830 0900 0930 1000 1030 1100 1130 1230 1330 1430 1530 1625 1655 1730 1916 2016 2216
Sunday at:
0932 1128 1328 1528 1728
All services 7 to 12 minutes later at Melksham Market Place

From Bath (Bus Station)  to Bowerhill - service D3

Monday to Friday at
0740 0825 0920 1020 1120 1220 1320 1420 1520 1550 1620 1700 1730 1800 1835 2000 2130 2320
Saturday at
0820 0920 0950 1020 1120 1220 1320 1420 1520 1550 1620 1700 1730 1800 1835 2000 2130 2320
Sunday at
1105 1300 1500 1700 1900
All services a few minutes later from Bath Guildhall

All buses call run from Bowerhill via Melksham Town Centre, Whitley, Atworth, Ashley, Batheaston and the centre of Bath to the Bus station, journey time from 52 to 68 minutes.  Some are through services to / from Devizes and Urchfont. All travel via Melksham Forest on either their outbound or inbound journeys.

Note that some times are changed from the previous timetable, and middle of the day services are reduced from every 30 minutes to every hour. The 21:30 bus from Bath on Mondays to Saturdays, which used to terminate at Melksham Market Place, is extended to Bowerhill via Melksham Forest.

Other buses are available between Melksham and Bath on route X72 (run by Faresaver) on Mondays to Saturdays, daytime, and by Swindon's Bus Company on route X76 on Monday to Friday.  Passengers can also travel by train (run by GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)) from Melksham Station to Bath Spa Station changing at Chippenham or Trowbridge - first weekday train 06:36 (05:33 from 16th December).

[grahame]

I have timetables (web versions of the printed ones) which I can share

All from Bath
http://www.mrug.org.uk/d1_20191110.pdf - to Trowbridge, Westbury, Warminster, Salisbury
http://www.mrug.org.uk/d2_20191110.pdf - to Frome
http://www.mrug.org.uk/d3_20191110.pdf - to Melksham/Bowerhill, evening & Sunday onto Devizes & Urchfont

Overall public transport services from MELKSHAM to Bath are now ...

[Reginald25]

Understandable reduction in frequency but let's hope that it doesn't encourage passengers who started to use the bus after the frequency increase, back to their cars.

[grahame]

http://melkshamnews.com/2019/11/06/public-transport-changes-coming-to-melksham/

CHANGES are being made to the timetables of Melksham’s bus and train services.

For bus users, the First D3 service from Melksham to Bath will be reduced from a half-hourly service to an hourly service during off-peak times. And there will also be some departure and running time alterations.

For train users, there will be changes to Melksham’s timetable, with ‘significant’ changes to some services.

It carries on ...

Explaining the changes, vice chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Graham Ellis, said...

Oh goodness - him again  ... but it does carry on with useful data

[grahame]

Follow ups at http://www.passenger.chat/23037 - new services from 5th April 2020.