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Author Topic: Salisbury to Warminster - Public Transport changes - Dec 2021 and Jan 2022  (Read 1798 times)
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« on: January 14, 2022, 09:45:06 »

First of what's likely to be a series of posts to be shared on Social Media.

From Salisbury, week commencing 17th January 2022:
- One train per hour, GWR (Great Western Railway), major stations to Bath (and onwards to Bristol and Cardiff)
- One bus every 2 hours, First West of England to Bath
- Two extra trains per day, GWR, all stations to Bath (and onwards via Bristol)

From Salisbury, week commencing 31st January:
- One train per hour, GWR, major stations to Bath (and onwards to Bristol and Cardiff)
- (Probably) one bus every 2 hours to Warminster. Timetable and operator unknown as yet.
- Two extra trains per day, GWR, all stations to Bath (from Brighton, onwards via Bristol)

"Control" - what you had at the start of December 2021:
- One train per hour, GWR, major stations to Bath (and onwards to Bristol and Cardiff)
- Two extra trains per day, GWR, all stations to Bath (and onwards via Bristol)
- One bus every 2 hours, First West of England to Bath
- Three or four trains a day, SWR» (South Western Railway - about), London to Bristol route
- Several extra SWR trains, SWR, to Westbury then via Frome (**)
- Three local trains per day, GWR, from Southampton via Westbury (*)
- Additional early morning train, GWR, Salisbury to Swindon (**)

(**) - these trains are said to be just temporarily suspended at present
(*) - two of these three permanently withdrawn, one just temporarily suspended
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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2022, 17:59:04 »

Public transport services, Salisbury to Westbury, Monday to Friday

Base list as running pre-Covid. 
Those WITHOUT footnotes are still running and should be unaltered next month too.  Of the others:

x - Not running at present, said to be a "temporary" reduction
xx - Withdrawn permanently in December 2021
y - TO be withdrawn 30th Jan, probably replaced by a "change at Warminster" service

06:06      Train to Gloucester
06:35   x   Train to Cheltenham Spa
06:40   xx   Train to Bristol Temple Meads
07:20      Train to Cardiff
08:40      Train to Cardiff (was 08:30 previously)
08:55   y   Bus D1
09:03   x   Train to Great Malvern
09:23   x   Train to Yeovil Pen Mill
09:42      Train to Cardiff
10:42      Train to Cardiff
10:52   xx   Train to Bristol Temple Meads
10:55   y   Bus D1
11:12      Train to Worcester Foregate Street
11:42      Train to Cardiff
12:42      Train to Cardiff
12:55   y   Bus D1
13:07   xx   Train to Great Malvern
13:42      Train to Cardiff
14:12   xx   Train to Bristol Temple Meads
14:42      Train to Cardiff
14:55   y   Bus D1
15:42      Train to Cardiff
16:42      Train to Cardiff
16:55   y   Bus D1
17:42      Train to Cardiff
18:01   xx   Train to Bristol Temple Meads
18:30   y   Bus D1
18:42      Train to Cardiff
19:12      Train to Bristol Parkway
19:42      Train to Cardiff
19:58   x   Train to Castle Cary
20:42      Train to Cardiff
20:57   xx   Train to Bristol Temple Meads
21:42      Train to Bristol Temple Meads
21:54   xx   Train to Westbury
23:00      Train to Westbury
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