| Re: Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by WSW Frome at 16:00, 27th August 2026 |     |
I still have a copy of this particular timetable book and indeed had marvelled at the Lavington service. I did also do a first and last trip to Devizes in the last days. This involved the service that Mark highlights and I had intended to explore at Patney. It was however snowing heavily and about a foot deep. So a swift return to the train was sensible. I had to buy a separate ticket at Devizes for the trip to Patney and I still have a complete Edmonson Ordinary return ticket - Third Class.
| Re: Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by grahame at 10:07, 27th August 2026 | |
So, the early one aside, the sole morning eastbound train through Devizes waits at Devizes for 25 minutes, heads to Patney and arrives there two minutes after an all-stations connection to Reading leaves?
If you see pictures of Devizes station in this period, you see a single track through what was once a three platform station, the line snaking in over stubs of pointwork. No-one was bothering with connections or generating traffic, by that point knowing that the axe was about to fall.
It's a common sort of pattern - two trains a day into Halwill from the north, with the second one arriving 10 minutes after the train headed towards Okehampton and Exeter had left.
| Re: Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by Mark A at 09:41, 27th August 2026 | |
So, the early one aside, the sole morning eastbound train through Devizes waits at Devizes for 25 minutes, heads to Patney and arrives there two minutes after an all-stations connection to Reading leaves?
| Re: Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by grahame at 21:33, 26th August 2026 | |
Looking at connection times out of its trains, the first four I checked, Devizes services would have been a distress purchase by then.
If Devizes wasn't clever .. here's the other route from Westbury via Patney & Chirton. Fancy travelling from or to Lavington?
| Re: Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by Mark A at 20:07, 26th August 2026 | |
Looking at connection times out of its trains, the first four I checked, Devizes services would have been a distress purchase by then.
| Spring 1965 - timetables Salisbury - Bath / Chippenham / Patney & Chirton Posted by grahame at 18:22, 26th August 2026 | |
From a timetable obtained for a few shekels at Sheffield Park last Saturday
