{"id":8451,"date":"2024-10-12T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/weirdly-wandering-to-wantage-mini-1\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T01:31:00","slug":"weirdly-wandering-to-wantage-mini-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/weirdly-wandering-to-wantage-mini-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdly Wandering to Wantage (mini 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
State Visit to Oxfordshire<\/span><\/p>\n Yep, refurbished quite a bit!<\/p>\n Axe Valley Mini Travel (no longer “Mini”) bus from Seaton to Axminster, followed by South Western Railway a k a SWR (First) to Basingstoke …<\/p>\n … First GWR to Reading then First GWR to Didcot Parkway. Thereafter it would be bus to Wantage.<\/p><\/div>\n Yer what?\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n … two GW<\/span>R and one CrossCountry (XC<\/span>) and it has been like that for many a long year.<\/p><\/div>\n … and, yes, there are two trains an hour, not quite clock face and not evenly spaced, but at least two an hour nevertheless, Reading departures at xx25 and xx49 (roughly).<\/p><\/div>\n Axminster to Salisbury<\/span>?<\/p>\n Salisbury to Bath<\/span>? And then …<\/p><\/div>\n … Bath to Didcot?<\/p>\n And there is the 1006 but – oddly and weirdly, it has\u00a0no connecting times to Reading<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n On a more positive note, IF fbb and Mrs were allowed to get to Didcot, there appear to be TWO bus services between there and Wantage …<\/p>\n … which would surely offer a connection allowing the fbbs to complete their journey all the way by public transport?<\/p><\/div>\n