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Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > Heart of Wessex (Data Manager: rogerw) >  Celebrating 30 years of Wessex Wanderers Railway Walks
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« Reply #15 on: Today at 07:01:06 »
Quote from: grahame on Yesterday at 19:02:27
I plan to rise early again tomorrow and give it another go. Somewhat prophetically, I had decided to only buy my ticket once I knew the train had passed onto the single line on tine; same again in the morning.   It's a more expensive train / ticket than I like as it's not "Off Peak". A rather strange definition of "Off Peak" because both of the trains load very thinly and so in colloquial terms the are NOT peak services.  Weather forecast looks OK for the walk too.

I rose early, worried at the 9 minutes late at Stonehouse ... which was made up along the way ... 1 minute late at Melksham, and into Westbury in time for the connection.  I noted last time I made the connection, and again today, that others were making the dash through the subway at Westbury too ... had a chat with them and it turns out they are regulars and it "usually" works.

There are no peak crowds on this train  Cheesy
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