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« on: October 25, 2024, 07:17:08 »

Good that both rail and roadworks are being carried out during the school holidays but both at the same time and on the same route the rail replacement buses will be taking  Huh

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7ygdx3ldo

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Travellers can expect disruption on the West's rail lines and roads for several days as multiple improvement works begin.

Great Western Railway (GWR (Great Western Railway)) is starting planned track renewal work around Bristol.

Works are planned between Bath Spa and Westbury on Sunday 27 October and between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads from Monday to Thursday 31 October, meaning no trains will run between those stations.

Long delays are also expected near the A4 Globe Roundabout between Bristol and Bath from Friday until 3 November due to temporary traffic lights.

On Sunday there will be trains between Bath, Bristol and Cardiff but with rail replacement services from Bath to the Wiltshire stations.

From Monday until Thursday, the line between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads will be closed and buses will replace trains.

GWR says there will be one train an hour between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads via an alternative route which does not call at Chippenham or Bath Spa.

There will also be one train an hour running to and from London Paddington as far as Bath Spa.

Rail disruption details:

Sunday 27 October

Trains will be running between:

Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads or Cardiff Central

Westbury and Portsmouth Harbour or Weymouth

Replacement buses are planned between:

Bath Spa, Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge and Westbury

Bath Spa, Freshford, Avoncliff* and Bradford-on-Avon
*buses stop in Westwood Village

Monday 28 to Thursday 31 October

Trains between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads will use an alternative route – not stopping at Chippenham or Bath Spa.

A reduced train service will be operating between London Paddington and Bath Spa via Chippenham.

Trains will also be running between:

Bath Spa and Westbury, Portsmouth Harbour or Weymouth

Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central, Gloucester or Worcester

Replacement buses are planned between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads.
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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2024, 17:28:01 »

And todays rail replacement of Bath-Westbury had a problem.

Stallard Street (outside Trowbridge station) was closed, and A363 Woodmarsh (the bus route between Trowbridge and Westbury) was also completely closed.   Trowbridge had lots of big traffic queues around lunchtime today, Sunday

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« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 22:21:37 »

I was caught up in this last week. It was evident that the rail replacement bus times hadn't taken sufficient account of the roadworks between Bristol and Bath.

On Thursday, I needed to travel from Bristol to Salisbury and back to collect the young Kempis from family. National Rail Enquiries offered an itinerary leaving Clifton Down at 10.00 and arriving at Salisbury at 12.32, including a bus between Bristol and Bath. But the bus was delayed by the works at the Globe roundabout noted in the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) report and missed the connecting train at Bath Spa. So I didn't arrive at Salisbury until 13.32.

I was met by the family at Salisbury station, and so we could have travelled straight back, but the 13.42 from Salisbury was cancelled. We took the 14.42, had to wait for the bus at Bath (the buses didn't seem to be running to schedule), were again held up by long delays approaching the Globe, and arrived at Clifton Down at 18.07.

So that was eight hours in all, on the train or waiting at stations, for a return journey that would normally take about two hours each way. At least we made it back in time for the young Kempis to go trick-or-treating.
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