Daytime Traffic on the TransWilts

johnneyw

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Re: Daytime Traffic on the TransWilts

« Reply #375 on: December 14, 2018, 21:13:34 »

My travels took me to Melksham today. Must say that the number of people using the station seems impressive with plenty getting off when I arrived and even more boarding on the return journey. Looks like the platform extension is money well spent.


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grahame

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Re: Daytime Traffic on the TransWilts

« Reply #376 on: December 14, 2018, 21:21:40 »

Quote from: johnneyw on December 14, 2018, 21:13:34

I arrived back at 20:32 tonight ... last train of the day, and just about the quietest on most days. We looked for an average of 20 passengers using all the trains as our hurdle for "success" in three years ... this quietest train tonight had 30 users ... 9 of whom got off and one got on at Melksham - so that's 30/10 on our old measuring system. Chatting with the train manager, she was saying it's getting very busy and confirmed that today seemed very much so - now that the engineering bus replacements are almost over (just the 12 days of Christmas come), and the train has a greater capacity, or ceiling has been lifted.

Thank you for visiting Melksham ... hope your trip fulfilled whatever it was you came for.


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johnneyw

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Re: Daytime Traffic on the TransWilts

« Reply #377 on: December 14, 2018, 21:28:37 »

It was just a spur of the moment thing, breaking the journey at Trowbidge on the way for a quick look aroud, a bit more time in Melksham (not been there before) and then Bradford on Avon before back to Briz. I do like the Christmas lights in BoA^» . It's a benefit of only working part time now that I can decide on the day to do this.


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