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Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-02-26 16:55:23 - Graham Ellis

Advise on travel to Melksham for training course customers arriving via London. The advise is good for people coming to Melksham to visit other businesses too ...

If you fly into London's Heathrow airport, the best way to Melksham would actually be by express coach [bus] rather than by train as it would save you having to go into and out of the centre of London - there's a coach at 18:45 from Heathrow that passes right by our training centre and stops about 500 metres away, and it takes just over 2 hours. It returns from Melksham to Heathrow at 07:45 each morning. The standard return fare is 27.40 (twenty seven pounds 40p) return.

From Central London, the train [outside the peak hours, when they more than double] costs 45 pounds return - make sure you get a return ticket, because a one way ticket costs just a pound less. And that's to Melksham (with very few services) or to Chippenham - 8 km away.

If you arrived in a different airport (London also has airports at Stansted and Gatwick), you would transfer by train and it would cost rather more as they are both on the other side of London - the off peak return from Stansted is 56 pounds, and from Gatwick it's 53 pounds.




Extra notes:

If you get the train to Chippenham, there's a local bus service to Melksham that calls at the station during the evenings only, or you could get a taxi (allow just under 20 pounds). If you are on a Well House Consultants course or staying at Well House Manor, we may be able to arrange a lift or have a taxi from Melksham there to meet you.

If you're arriving into Heathrow at other times of day, it's still easier to catch the coach than the train, but to Chippenham where the bus will drop you off right beside the taxi rank.