"I currently commute to work by train almost every weekday: Nailsea & Backwell to Bristol Temple Meads return, morning 9'ish and evening 6'ish.
I also used to travel to my London office occasionally - maybe once a month, HST direct, and to the Manchester office, maybe once every three months - XC. However, certain things will be changing soon, so my longer distance train travel may become rather more varied and frequent!
I'm rather fond of my station at Nailsea, despite the fact that buildings, sidings, signal boxes, staff, station manager and even the news stand have all disappeared over the years - leaving us with just two concrete platforms and four perspex bus shelters!"
grahame (Graham Ellis)
Typical rail journeys ...
Melksham - Swindon
Melksham to London (when I can)
Chippenham to London (when I must)
Andover to Waterloo
And a wide variety of others!
Graz (Graham Ditte)
Typical rail journeys:
Most week days, single evening journey:
Warminster - Oldfield Park (direct train)
Less often:
Frome - Oldfield Park (When I have to stay late from work I go from Frome instead)
Oldfield Park - Cheltenham Spa (Few times a month)
Oldfield Park or Bath Spa - Avoncliff
Oldfield Park or Bath Spa - Cardiff Bay
Oldfield Park - Redland or Clifton Down
Inspector_Blakey (James)
Typical journeys are Oxford - Keynsham or Bristol T M, less frequently Oxford to Paddington, Swansea, Carmarthen or Whitland. I've been around Oxford long enough (since 2000) to have seen several regimes (Thames Trains, FGW Link and now FGW), and firmly believe that, on the whole, things have improved greatly in recent years. FGW has good intentions and some great staff, and don't really deserve their bad press. However, I'm not an apologist: they can (and do, rather too often!) drop clangers in spectacular style sometimes.
I'm a confirmed railway enthusiast, and active in various operational grades on a heritage railway. My various exploits over the years mean that I've also become a bit of an accidental expert on the byzantine world of ticketing and the Conditions of Carriage.
Currently Oxford based, but times they are a'changin - I start a new job in the US later in the year!
Johoare (Jo Hoare)
I commuted from Maidenhead to London daily from 1992 until the end of 2008... First with Thames trains and then FGW..
I now only use the train more occasionally (usually Maidenhead to Paddington but sometimes the other way to Reading), but hope to work back in London full time again soon, so still have a vested interest in keeping a good if not better train service running..
Lee (Lee Fletcher)
Typical rail journeys ...
Starting from the Southern end of FGW territory up to Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol etc.
Portsmouth - Chichester / Bognor Regis
Nick (Nick Field)
Typical rail journeys ...
Chippenham - Salisbury
Chippenham - Bath and Bristol, and also to Swindon
Chippenham - Melksham (when services allow)
Phil (Phil McMullen)
Phil says:
"Typical train journeys, around 12 a month:
Melksham to London (although I usually drive to Chippenham, or sometimes to Westbury just for a change)
Chippenham or Westbury to Reading
Chippenham or Westbury to Basingstoke via Reading or Salisbury.
My daughter also commutes daily Melksham - Swindon so I have a vested interest in re-establishing a sensible train service for Melksham, as I'm currently driving her to and from Chippenham."
Sion Bretton
Typical rail journeys ...
Melksham to Bristol TM either via Chippenham or Trowbridge.
Sec of MRDG
Member of West Wilts Rail Users Group
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