It's a quiet, cool Sunday morning ... great to be back in the UK having spent last week delivering a
Ruby Course in Saudi Arabia. Walking out of my accommodation there just after 7 in the mrning, I was already ht by a wall of heat - in the high 30s celcius - for the 15 minute / 2 checkpoint walk to the training room, in the most magnificent air conditioned centre. The contrast today - I'm going to be on a a selection of rickety old trains as I go up to Swindon, then travel down via Chippenham and Melksham for a day at the seaside - the first "Weymouth" of the year. Advertising has been limited - a singlepost on the TransWilts facebook page; and I find my self excited tey worried as to whether we'll have an empty train , a full one, or somewhere between. So much depends on how the weather looks this morning. Report back to follow.
(written 2016-05-22)
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Z511 - Public Transport - Road [119] PHP course. Come by train. - (2004-11-15)
[187] a popular bus number - (2005-01-23)
[459] Kiss and Ride - (2005-10-09)
[474] Vintage Bus Day - (2005-10-23)
[764] Journey planning - Xephos v Transport Direct - (2006-06-16)
[818] Heard, yes. Considered, no. The case for the train. - (2006-07-30)
[1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
[1125] Train service - petititon reply - (2007-03-31)
[1254] Comparing bus stops - (2007-07-01)
[1315] Two years of campaigning for a train service - (2007-08-22)
[1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
[1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
[1560] HST Power Car TravelWatch SouthWest - (2008-03-01)
[1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car - (2008-03-07)
[1668] Talk on TransWilts train service to Green Party - (2008-06-07)
[1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (2008-07-26)
[1777] The Rise and Rise of First Bus Fares - (2008-08-29)
[2075] Supporting Parkinsons and Trains - (2009-03-11)
[2083] Do you support a decent train service? Please sign up! - (2009-03-15)
[2268] Westbury Bypass Refused - looking forward - (2009-07-04)
[2328] Melksham - no trains, no southbound buses through the town - (2009-08-08)
[2372] Public Transport from (and to) Melksham on Sundays - (2009-08-23)
[2431] Moving busstop! - (2009-09-30)
[2515] Why we have two buses an hour - but not a half hourly service - (2009-11-28)
[2522] Integrated public Transport - what could be done for Melksham - (2009-12-01)
[2533] Five guests, three groups, one car - (2009-12-11)
[2662] Is Melksham public transport actually used? - (2010-03-05)
[2672] Dear Planners, please provide viable alternatives - (2010-03-11)
[2771] Melksham to Calne by public transport - (2010-05-20)
[2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London) - (2010-06-02)
[2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times - (2010-06-03)
[2857] Park and Ride at Batheaston - will it solve Wiltshires Ills? - (2010-07-06)
[2903] Bath to Devizes bus via Melksham - changing again in September - (2010-08-04)
[2919] London to Calne, Corsham, Melksham, Bradford-on-Avon, Chippenham by public Transport - (2010-08-13)
[2933] Bath - Melksham - Devizes buses from September - (2010-08-23)
[2958] What do these road markings mean? Could Confusion Kill? - (2010-09-17)
[2982] Travel, Transport and Tourism - A vision for Melksham, 2026 - (2010-10-03)
[2983] Strong arm tactics in the bus industry? Poor result for the customer! - (2010-10-03)
[3126] Car Parking in Melksham - thoughts on the proposed scheme, and wider thoughts too - (2011-01-09)
[3194] Buses - what they cost and their future direction in the SW and in Wiltshire - (2011-03-06)
[3290] Changes (and no changes) at Melksham bus stops - (2011-05-15)
[3301] Using public transport - USA style - (2011-05-25)
[3404] Buses on the Cambridge Guided Busway - (2011-08-24)
[3471] Vintage Bus Running Day in Warminster. An example of good bus practise. - (2011-10-09)
[3486] How important is public transport to people in the Melksham area? - (2011-10-19)
[3487] Public transport - road and rail - (2011-10-19)
[3504] Coaches from Trowbridge and Melksham to London - (2011-11-01)
[3523] When competition is not a good idea - Melksham Bus Absurdity - (2011-11-16)
[3564] I wish I was not a special case - (2011-12-29)
[3579] Transport in Cambridgeshire - seen by an outside observer. What can Wiltshire learn? - (2012-01-15)
[3580] Melksham Area - buses, trains, cycles, and roads. Meeting, 17.1.2012 - (2012-01-15)
[3631] Getting around Dublin by public transport - some observations - (2012-03-01)
[3699] Bristol 50? Bristol 25? - (2012-04-17)
[3849] New bus times - Melksham to Bath - (2012-08-25)
[3850] Bus times - Chippenham Station to Melksham, with London connections - (2012-08-25)
[3866] Celebrate! Buses from Meksham to Bath - (2012-09-18)
[3877] Public Transport Services - from and to Melksham - (2012-10-01)
[3879] Mixed mode travel - Information systems - (2012-10-03)
[3893] Public Transport across Wiltshire - a new map - (2012-10-13)
[3904] Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how! - (2012-10-26)
[3929] Melksham Bus Issues - to be raised at First Bus Customer Panel - (2012-11-21)
[3937] Agenda for Wiltshire Link Travel groups meeting, Saturday 1st December 2012 - (2012-11-27)
[3938] A long overdue meeting - a steeping stone towards coordinate transport user inputs - (2012-12-02)
[3951] Christmas Bus Schedule for Melksham - First Bus - (2012-12-14)
[4022] A request for all of Melksham transport groups to work integrated - (2013-03-01)
[4023] Melksham to Chippenham (Station) bus services - times and routes - (2013-03-01)
[4032] Easier public transport from Melksham to Bristol Airport - (2013-03-06)
[4108] The painful cost of local travel to Melksham - (2013-06-01)
[4111] Zigzag bus - forward for the future, or decaying service? - (2013-06-09)
[4113] Wiltshire and Melksham Transport - what is going on? - (2013-06-09)
[4123] New timetables from 28th July - bus routes 271 and 272 - (2013-06-24)
[4124] Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge bus changes next month - (2013-06-26)
[4143] Bus times - Melksham to Bath from 28th July 2013 - (2013-07-25)
[4149] Bus changes to Bath - good idea, but I despair at information available - (2013-08-08)
[4150] Melksham Regular Public Transport Map - as at August 2013 - (2013-08-09)
[4152] Why are bus fares so high? - (2013-08-18)
[4171] Mapping road accidents in Melksham and elsewhere too - (2013-09-12)
[4179] Changing transport and destinations - looking forward to a good future - (2013-09-19)
[4181] Grumbling about trains? Buses can be far worse! - (2013-09-29)
[4186] Melksham to Bath and Zigzag buses - at a turning point? - (2013-10-06)
[4190] A radical proposal - a cheap and effective way to provide home to city commuter transport - (2013-10-11)
[4191] Getting people to and from Melksham Station - not 20 but 700 times a day - (2013-10-12)
[4192] A positive progress behind the scenes - (2013-10-14)
[4194] TransWilts Link - meeting notes from 19th October - (2013-10-20)
[4228] Mallory Place, The Spa, Wellington Drive, Melksham - a Christmas present for you - (2013-12-26)
[4240] Melksham Rail Link - (2014-01-27)
[4247] You wait a long time - then buses come in threes. It's timetabled that way! - (2014-03-09)
[4257] Over a pound a kilometre - my bus in Weston-super-mare - (2014-04-06)
[4263] Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge, public transport over Easter (2014) - (2014-04-12)
[4286] Reaction in Radstock to new First bus prices - (2014-07-12)
[4290] National Express replaced by train and by Megabus from Chippenham to London - (2014-07-16)
[4425] A Welsh valley - what the transport looks like in 2015 - (2015-02-14)
[4500] The TransWilts Community Intergrated Transport Corridor - (2015-05-29)
[4546] Is the RUH hopper a limited, duplicate service running unnecessarily and at high cost? - (2015-10-18)
[4547] RUH Hopper - experience and thoughts forward - (2015-10-20)
[4592] A comparison of the public transport alternatives to the Royal United Hospital, Bath - from Melksham. - (2015-12-06)
[4615] Questions for First (West of England) - (2016-01-05)
[4619] Buses - not about the buses, but about the people who use the buses - (2016-01-10)
[4624] Campaigning for a sensible bus solution and not against anyone! - (2016-01-17)
[4629] Making travel time useful time on public transport - (2016-01-22)
[4631] What would the Wiltshire Council bus cuts mean for Melksham? - (2016-01-25)
[4636] Rail user groups worried about what is happening on the buses - (2016-01-31)
[4639] Working out the costs of running a bus service through the day - (2016-02-06)
[4648] Why is bus funding a much hotter topic than a new set of traffic lights? - (2016-02-16)
[4654] Getting to the Royal United Hospital - the Hopper and the alternatives - (2016-02-24)
[4660] What is happening on the 231 bus? What are you going to do about it? - (2016-03-04)
[4664] Mallory Place bus stop - services to Bath - (2016-03-25)
[4667] Wiltshire Supported Bus consultation - final few days - (2016-03-30)
[4670] The end, or the start? - (2016-04-05)
[4690] Buses in Wiltshire - potential changes and where we stand at the moment - (2016-05-30)
[4692] How are bus support payments currently calculated? - (2016-06-07)
[4703] What do people use the bus for in Wiltshire - survey interim results. - (2016-07-11)
Z200 - Places [66] A Taste of Ireland - (2004-09-28)
[70] Red Luas - early life and times - (2004-10-02)
[92] Hard work, Hard sell - (2004-10-18)
[186] Lull - (2005-01-22)
[218] Golden Nugget - (2005-02-17)
[403] Full circle - made it back to an old haunt - (2005-08-05)
[670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
[685] A couple of days away - (2006-04-15)
[713] Pictures from my travels - (2006-05-07)
[727] A journey, an arrival, a people - (2006-05-21)
[730] Reading the newspaper and working with other restrictions - (2006-05-23)
[740] Finishing up in Dhahran - (2006-06-01)
[778] Weekend in Ireland - (2006-06-26)
[886] Signs of Leek - (2006-10-04)
[1147] A picture (mostly in words) of Helsinki - (2007-04-14)
[1204] Spot the difference - (2007-05-25)
[1229] Where am I? - (2007-06-11)
[1244] FolksFest Bristol - German beer, Bratwurst and music - (2007-06-24)
[1298] From Leeds - (2007-08-10)
[1307] Troy, up state New York - (2007-08-17)
[1425] Melksham v Ely - (2007-11-09)
[1456] Right up to the top of the City - (2007-12-03)
[1457] A day in Ljubljana - (2007-12-04)
[1460] Christmas fare in Ljubljana - (2007-12-05)
[1524] Nottingham - just text! - (2008-01-30)
[1536] A Weekend in Liverpool - (2008-02-10)
[1537] To Wales - where theres still a toll on the bridge - (2008-02-11)
[1590] All Change, Portsmouth Harbour - (2008-03-23)
[1617] Steam Engines at Bressingham - (2008-04-20)
[1624] From Freddie the fallow - (2008-04-27)
[1638] Pictures far apart - (2008-05-10)
[1639] Minehead Marauder - (2008-05-11)
[1652] Old Sarum airfield brings back fond memories - (2008-05-24)
[1714] Hillier Gardens, Hampshire - (2008-07-20)
[1715] Pictures from South Hampshire - (2008-07-21)
[1730] Punting on the Cam - (2008-07-31)
[1755] Istanbul - (2008-08-15)
[1804] Colvin and Carlisle - (2008-09-20)
[1807] A sad town in the sunlight - (2008-09-22)
[1837] Alfred the Great - (2008-10-13)
[2205] An evening walk in Carrickfergus - (2009-05-29)
[2207] North Antrim Coast - a jewel thats well worth a visit - (2009-05-29)
[2316] Guadalajara - a special tour of a lovely city - (2009-08-01)
[2387] to Clifton Down and Avonmouth - (2009-08-30)
[2392] Lymington, New Forest - some pictures - (2009-09-03)
[2411] Further North - long summer days and lovely countryside - (2009-09-19)
[2624] Skyline and looking up in London - (2010-02-04)
[2733] Travel Troubles and Jesus again - (2010-04-21)
[2754] At Arlington and the Pentagon - (2010-05-07)
[2799] Nuremberg - some pictures - (2010-06-08)
[2802] After the Perl course in Nurnberg - (2010-06-11)
[2808] From home to Nurnberg - journey pictures - (2010-06-13)
[2809] Frankfurt in 90 minutes - (2010-06-13)
[2897] The Land of the Black Labrador - (2010-08-01)
[2907] Dartmouth, Kingswear and Torbay - (2010-08-07)
[2985] Right place, right season - (2010-10-04)
[3064] On the way to the course this week - (2010-11-22)
[3070] Belfast, on a cold November evening - (2010-11-25)
[3175] The Rhine in winter - (2011-02-19)
[3185] Day Trip to Hereford, in pictures - (2011-02-26)
[3204] Two views of a war memorial - (2011-03-17)
[3297] A long day, a long journey, and families and similarities the world over - (2011-05-22)
[3330] A lot of exercise this week - (2011-06-21)
[3353] Off the beaten track - non-quite-so-tourist spots - (2011-07-10)
[3393] Rodwell Trail, Weymouth - (2011-08-15)
[3529] Sharpness, Gloucestershire - a place in transport history - (2011-11-25)
[3595] Looking up - (2012-01-27)
[3603] Another cold night - (2012-02-03)
[3654] On a sunny afternoon in London - (2012-03-15)
[3667] A modern area of Cambridge - some thoughts provoked? - (2012-03-22)
[3803] A Walk on the South Bank - (2012-07-13)
[3854] Busmans Holiday - I like being a busman - (2012-09-02)
[4011] From Salford - (2013-02-19)
[4052] The PHP course this week is in... Salford - (2013-03-26)
[4125] The first Luas of the morning - (2013-06-29)
[4182] Welcome to Salford and Oldham - (2013-09-30)
[4184] A fond memory - (2013-10-02)
[4203] A weekend away - Four in a Bed returns to Happy Donkey Hill - (2013-11-09)
[4214] A busy week, and a long flight - (2013-11-24)
[4220] Thun, Switzerland - (2013-12-14)
[4331] Musings on a Welsh town - (2014-11-28)
[4348] Taking my life in my hands in Swansea - (2014-12-11)
[4411] Location, location location. And a chance of a giggle! - (2015-02-01)
[4477] Yesterday - off on leg one of our holiday - (2015-04-29)
[4479] Pictures from around Rekjavik - (2015-04-29)
[4480] Crossing between continents - (2015-04-30)
[4486] Newark to New York - the PATH suburban railway - (2015-05-05)
[4488] Election day, 2015 - (2015-05-07)
[4490] What and where are the Azores? - (2015-05-09)
[4497] Around the world from Melksham - (2015-05-25)
[4643] From last July (2015) - (2016-02-08)
[4671] Ruby training, half a world away - (2016-05-14)
[4729] The oldest part of Los Angeles - (2016-11-23)
[4730] San Juan Capistrano - (2016-11-23)
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