Pen Mill - Junction.

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JayMac

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Pen Mill - Junction.

« on: August 10, 2011, 11:07:28 »

(Nearly) useless fact of the day:

To travel by road between Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction takes 6-7 minutes and the distance is 2^ miles.

To travel by regular timetabled rail services (Pen Mill-Castle Cary-Westbury-Salisbury-Junction) takes 2^ hours and the distance is 96 miles!


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Re: Pen Mill - Junction.

« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2011, 11:15:04 »

Weren't there plans to build a Southeastern curve from Yeovil Junction to the Weymouth line so that trains to and from Weymouth would serve both Junction and Pen Mill reversing at the Junction.


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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2011, 11:24:39 »

I'm not aware of any recent plans to do that.

Building a south east curve wouldn't be too problematical. There used to be one and the track bed is still largely there.


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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2011, 17:18:40 »

South West Coaches' service 68 currently provides a half-hourly service between the two stations for most of the day, Monday to Saturday, with a journey time of 12 minutes. Incidentally, there don't appear to be any available fares for the Pen Mill - Junction rail journey, perhaps not surprisingly!


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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2011, 23:35:49 »

I looked at fares. If you are dead set on catching a train between YVP and YVJ you are looking at around ^35 for a single journey. You will need more than one ticket......


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« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2011, 20:39:39 »

good old plus bus :-)


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