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GO-OP Timetable

Connecting Somerset & Wiltshere

Service Volume:

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  • Monday – Saturday: 3 return trips Taunton-Swindon, 3 return trips Taunton – Westbury, 5 return trips Taunton-Bishops Lydeard Sunday: 3 return trips Taunton-Swindon, 3 return trips Bishops Lydeard - Taunton

  • Sunday: 3 return trips Taunton-Swindon, 3 return trips Bishops Lydeard - Taunton

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Some of the main benefits include:

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  • Starting the route at Bishops Lydeard, a station not connected to the mainline, opens a new area of potential passengers. Ideal for those commuting into Taunton or wanting to avoid town centre traffic to catch a mainline train and for visitors to the West Somerset Railway.
     

  • The route from Taunton to Swindon could be one of the main rail corridors for the west; at present the poor services and connections mean that there is only one viable trip southbound on this route but GO-OP’s services increase that to six (there is an hourly route with a change at Bristol that is faster, but Taunton and Swindon are the only stops in Somerset and Wiltshire that it calls at – there are seven other stations between those two, and GO-OP will call at all of them).
     

  • Between Swindon and Yeovil there is presently only one northbound trip per day with that has less than 30 minutes waiting for connections; GO-OP’s timetable makes it five.
     

  • Improvements for journeys across Wiltshire: such as the TransWilts route from Swindon to Salisbury via Melksham and Westbury. There are presently only four viable journeys (less than half an hour waiting for a connection) southbound on a weekday, and seven northbound; adding GO-OP’s routes makes it six and nine respectively making it much more practical.
     

  • An increase in the volume of services at significant towns such as Frome (up by a quarter) and Melksham (up by a third); all of which will enable interchange at Westbury for a wide variety of destinations.
     

  • Changes at Castle Cary allow travel between Taunton and Yeovil (and often, Dorchester) at six times each day both ways – rather than only four at present.
     

  • The proposal for a station re-opening at Langport & Somerton will be greatly strengthened by GO-OP’s commitment that if it opens, all GO-OP’s services will stop there.

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