Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 09:55 29 Apr 2024
- End of the road for 'Banksie' pothole campaigner
Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]		 22/05/24 - WWRUG / TransWilts update
02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
29th Apr (1973)
Patent award for Janney (Buckeye) coupling (*)
Train RunningCancelled
10:10 Newbury to Reading
Short Run
07:00 Gloucester to Plymouth
09:23 London Paddington to Oxford
09:23 Swansea to London Paddington
14:02 Oxford to London Paddington
•
PollsThere are no open or recent polls
•
Abbreviation pageAcronymns and abbreviations
•
Stn ComparatorStation Comparator
•
Rail newsNews Now - live rail news feed
•
Train companiesSelect from:
GWR
SWR
XC
Chiltern
TfL
TfW
WMR
Southern
• Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street
April 29, 2024, 10:07:35 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Forgotten your username or password? - get a reminder
Most recently liked subjects
[151] Clan Line - by Clan Line !
[83] Visiting the pub on the way home.
[17] South Western Railways Waterloo - Bristol services axed
[16] access for all at Devon stations report
[10] Labour to nationalise railways within five years of coming to ...
[8] Misleading advertising?
 
News: the Great Western Coffee Shop ... keeping you up to date with travel around the South West
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > South Western services (Data Manager: JayMac) > Then and now - Trowbridge to Waterloo on a Saturday
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Then and now - Trowbridge to Waterloo on a Saturday  (Read 800 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40844



View Profile WWW Email
« on: October 22, 2021, 14:52:59 »
Thinking of doing a day trip tomorrow.

Saturdays three years ago, Trowbridge to Waterloo.

Direct train at 09:27, 13:37 and 16:30
Arriving Waterloo at 11:49, 15:49 and 18:49

I have looked at Trowbridge to Waterloo for tomorrow 23.10.2021 ("not via Paddington")



Don't think I'll bother ...
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
ChrisB
Transport Scholar
Hero Member
******
Posts: 12366


View Profile Email
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2021, 15:53:56 »
45 mins longer on average each way.....
Logged
JayMac
Moderator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 18924



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2021, 16:05:34 »
Buses between Salisbury and Andover.
Logged
"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

- Sir Terry Pratchett.
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40844



View Profile WWW Email
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2021, 16:54:24 »
Quote from: bignosemac on October 22, 2021, 16:05:34
Buses between Salisbury and Andover.

Between Andover and Basingstoke, I think?

I looked this last weekend, when it WAS between Andover and Salisbury. A train arrived in Andover, 10 minute connection to a bus to Salisbury, where there was 10 minutes before the Bristol train left.   No longer journey time; the 59 minutes at Salisbury was reduced to an acceptable 10 minutes ...
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

 
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.2 | SMF © 2006-2007, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the 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 the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules (email link to report). Forum hosted by Well House Consultants

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page