The leaves are turning golden brown and falling from the trees, the days are drawing in, the government has ended the franchising system and is imposing additional restrictions on people ... so it's also the railway engineering season.
The Melksham Rail User Group has offered to support
GWR▸ during bus substitutions as they occur on dates right through 2021, getting weekly information out to our community ahead of time, and having one of our team (within rules at the time) at the station on mornings that buses are running.
We will get into something of a routine format for the timetables, I'm sure ... and almost certainly has a "no news" one too to tell people when trains are running to the regular published timetable.
Buses may be slow and inconvenient when replacing trains, but they provide a vital part of the connectivity and a key way to work - which these days spreads for many people across seven days not five. Rail replacement buses are also useful for visiting friends and relatives and attractions, and for parts of longer distance journey - not as good as having a train, but 20 times better than having nothing!
