Travelling to a course - station pickups

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

Most of our customers travel a considerable distance to our courses and it's their first time in Melksham. And a high proportion come by public transport. We're very used to helping people with directions, and arranging the last 'hop' from a nearby station [or airport] to our hotel / training centre.

Here's an example of the sort of advise and arrangements I've just been making for a delegate on a Python Course - with names changed to protect the innocent!

Hi, Mary - that's good, thank you - I have copied your email on to Lisa who will pencil in a place and room for Gerry pending receipt of the paperwork. Lisa will also put a note on file that Gerry would like to be collected from the station ... the local station is MELKSHAM which has three trains on a Sunday evening, and if Gerry lets us know which he'll be on I (or - just possibly someone else) will be there to collect him, with a Python book in hand. It's a small station - he'll have no trouble finding us!

If there are engineering works (or connection problems) and you can't get a reasonable train to Melksham, we can pick up from Chippenham or Westbury instead, or (worst case scenario) ensure that our local taxi service can pick him up. And either of those two stations is also fine for his return - anything from 17:15 or later if you're booking a specific train, and we'll get him there. With courses on which delegates come from all over the country, we're "dab hands" at welcoming people Wiltshire, and ensuring that the final few miles are smooth.

Graham

P.S. Our freephone number (0800 043 8225) reaches us 24 x 7 ... and can be used as an emergency contact even during the journey to us.
(written 2009-01-16, updated 2009-01-18)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

G101 - Well House Consultants - Getting to and from Melksham
  [40] Take the train to training - (2004-09-06)
  [154] Railway train service, Melksham station - (2004-12-17)
  [187] a popular bus number - (2005-01-23)
  [413] Save the train - (2005-08-13)
  [486] Rail services under threat - Swindon, Melksham ... and Newquay and Bicester too - (2005-11-05)
  [538] A company we can work with - (2005-12-23)
  [606] Train service from December - (2006-02-14)
  [715] First way to get rid of customers - (2006-05-09)
  [790] Shadow Transport Minister to visit Melksham - (2006-07-02)
  [796] Busy day in Melksham - (2006-07-08)
  [814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007 - (2006-07-25)
  [856] The train returns for a few weeks - (2006-09-05)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
  [1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
  [1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car - (2008-03-07)
  [1594] Please support improvements in our train service - (2008-03-28)
  [1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (2008-07-26)
  [1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor - (2008-09-19)
  [2057] Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham - (2009-02-26)
  [2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles - (2009-08-20)
  [2493] Melksham buses to/from Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, London - (2009-11-05)
  [2634] London to and from Melksham by public transport - (2010-02-13)
  [2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London) - (2010-06-02)
  [2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times - (2010-06-03)
  [3276] International travel to the UK - coming to Melksham - (2011-05-03)
  [3751] Public transport for international arrivals into Melksham - (2012-06-04)
  [3752] Melksham Visitors Map - Bus routes and train lines to and from the town - (2012-06-04)
  [4168] Travelling to and from courses - much easier from December 2013 - (2013-09-08)
  [4701] Pretty at the station too - (2016-07-06)

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