Train GraphicClick on the map to explore geographics
 
I need help
FAQ
Emergency
About .
 No recent travel & transport from BBC stories as at 02:35 29 Apr 2024
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 RunningNo cancellations or delays
•
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, 02:46:14 *
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
[110] Clan Line - by Clan Line !
[76] Visiting the pub on the way home.
[28] South Western Railways Waterloo - Bristol services axed
[27] access for all at Devon stations report
[17] Labour to nationalise railways within five years of coming to ...
[14] Misleading advertising?
 
News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Great Western Coffee Shop > All across the Great Western territory > Buses and other ways to travel (Data Managers: Bus_Lady, VickiS) > The personal cost of bus unreliability and cuts
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: The personal cost of bus unreliability and cuts  (Read 526 times)
grahame
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 40843



View Profile WWW Email
« on: October 22, 2022, 08:48:46 »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63345158

Quote
Bus services have failed to recover following the lifting of pandemic restrictions and have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) analysis suggests. Jon Kelly spent a week travelling on one typical route - the number 16 from Perth to Dundee - to find out what happens when the buses stop running.

Story from Scotland, but I read online about Stagecoach issues on the Swindon to Chippenham service, Go-ahead problems in Salisbury and First Bus issues in their "West of England" area.  So the no. 16 is not an individual case, but symptomatic of the whole bus industry - I have ned there the biggest three operators who provide any service in my home county (of Wiltshire), and for the past 9 months our local town bus, run b a smaller independent, has been running on one vehicle not 2.
Logged
Coffee Shop Admin, Acting Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, Option 24/7 Melksham Rep
bobm
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 9843



View Profile
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2022, 08:03:29 »
Seeing as the service is mentioned here - Stagecoach have announced the 55 between Swindon and Chippenham will be reduced from four buses an hour to three on Mondays to Fridays from the end of the month. 

The special journeys that go via New Road in Royal Wootton Bassett are withdrawn along with the 54 which runs between Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett via the Link Centre.
Logged
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