Oops. I should’ve known not to be optimistic! 

 
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26401626.furious-oxford-mp---botley-road-reopening-delay-confirmed/?ref=rss

 

I like that ... but yet the Severn Valley does not use any Network Rails track, nor do the Bodnin or Kingswear suggestions.  Others similar are services to Chinnor and Wallingford.    Running onto Network Rail lines - Minehead and Swanage, please.

 
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-rail-provides-update-on-status-of-botley-road-project

And it was on a Wednesday when the Gas man came to call.

 

Not to mention Taunton - Minehead 

After all, the people of West Somerset have only been waiting 55 years so far

 
Looks like Mark A missed a photo opportunity with the new PM

 
From the BBC website

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e5qx42gpo

 
14:30 Bristol-Paddington cancelled due to fault on train.

 

Nope. Standard walk-up fares frozen / capped this year at current levels

 
A blueprint for, amongst others, Bodmin General-Parkway, and Kingswaer-Paignton perhaps?

 

This is all true, but as a first step within two days of coming to power, it's pretty good. Yes, I'd prefer it if a journey from here to Carterton required one £2 ticket rather than two £2 tickets, but it's still better than two £3 tickets.

 
After Stagecoach's latest price increases some short fares exceeded £2, so this will effectively make £2 a flat fare regardless of distance e.g. one stop or the whole route in some cases.

 
GWR have launched a new day out ticket, valid for 2 adults and upto 4 children


https://www.gwr.com/your-tickets/ways-to-save/family-day-out

 
Here we go again.  It's a populist move but a very coarse approach that does little for anyone who needs to change buses during a journey.  It doesn't take any account of significantly different types of journey, whether short in-town or longer distance, or help operators launch new routes/buy larger buses to cope with extra demand.

 
Indeed.   There is a warning on Journeycheck that all trains will use Platform 1 at Torre and Torquay.

 
Perhaps it would have been worth suggesting to the organisers, or one of the local operators that a shuttle bus from Melksham station may have been a good idea?

 
(Just to clarify, I wasn't suggesting that the Bath/27x option should be promoted as a means of getting to the site; just an observation really.)

 
Ecotricity

 
If talks fail?  Roll over and forget about it then.
Wait until the next incident, then blame the staff perhaps.

 
From Facebook

 

.........so basically returned the fare cap to what it was under the previous Government.

 
BBC article that they have now partnered with Ecotricity for charging hubs, and looking at battery rather than diesel vehicles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn75n3m8e4lo

 
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cdx7z2wwe7qt


Thank you.  What about a train fare cap, or is that different?

 

Reading the maps, there's probably not a crossover available, nor are the lines signalled bi-directional, so it's going to be a mashup, a pilotman, very "special" ...

 

One of our (MTUG - Kev our treasurer) members is going to walk across to Melksham Station for train arrivals / redirect people who arrive un-encouraged at the nearest railway station to WOMAD.  We know it would not cope, nor would the local taxi / private hire / even bus operators is we made a song and dance about being closest.   But at about 4 miles from the site, Melksham is the closest, and the only one I would walk. We regularly get arrivals who have found Melksham  Station based on it being closest to their final destination (from online research) and stand outside the station looking lost asking "where are the taxis" ...

It's a real "shout" that Information at the Station" is needed ... though failure to gain CCIF funding has allowed that project to revert to proper timing; you will hear more in the late summer and autumn rather than us rising for an "al done" by 31st Match 2027.   New timescale makes more sense, not us forcing ourselves into out funder's stipulation.

Bus fares away from scheduled local services are interesting; the shuttle to the festival is not the only fare here in Wiltshire to be substantially higher than the £3 cap.  The £3 capped fares are regular services and allow the costs to be spread over a daily year round operation, where a festival weekend is a short, sharp and awkward series of journeys for bus operators. 

Yes - by all means people can catch the 271/2/3 and I expect a few will ... but it would be irresponsible marketing on our part to promote the option widely for the process out-of-area.

 
No trains to Paignton on Wednesday either.   However a “limited” train shuttle will run between Newton Abbot and Torquay, calling at Torre.

 
20:12 Swindon to Westbury due 20:56
20:12 Swindon to Westbury due 20:56 is being delayed at Swindon.
This is due to congestion.

 
Very unlike the RMT to threaten a strike?   

 
It wouldn't take many festival-goers and their camping gear to fill the 27X, which wouldn't go down well with its normal users.

 

Correct move, thank you - I think I was all thumbs when I started the thread this morning!