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Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham - day trips by train to Weymouth start for 2016

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2016-05-18 09:59:59 - Graham Ellis

Last Sunday, we didn't market a day trip to Weymouth on the TransWilts to celebrate the arrival of the new weekday train and arrival for the summer of an early Sunday train with a good connection to the seaside. With good cause because there were engineering works on the Heart of Wessex line, and with good luck because there were overruning engineering works that prevented the TransWilts train running.

For the coming 3 sundays, I've made a single Facebook post to promote the trip - from Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham to Weymouth. I've copied my post to our press and marketing contact at GWR so that they shouldn't be suprised if a few more people than normal turn up, but I admit (as always on these occasions) to being a little nervous as to how well we will have balanced passengers to capaity. I anticipate a class 153 train (a single carriage) so there isn't much scope for error.



Weymouth trips (with a change at Westbury) on 22nd and 29th May, on 5th June, and from July 3rd onwards. I'm going to see how this Sunday goes before doing any more promotion; I would rather have too much space than too little for people I'm tempting to use the train - perhaps for the first time in their lives.