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Hi all,
Does anyone know why the SWT service BTM-WAT has disappeared from online Saturday timetables?
I was hoping to use it 24/11, but it appears to no longer exist????
Defected from the holy goodness of Bristol to live in the rail mecca of Rogiet...
Buses replace trains between Andover and Woking on the day in question: you'll need to change at Andover onto a bus and change out of it at Woking onto a train for Waterloo. But ticket availability should be as normal.
If I remember correctly, it costs the same to go Bristol Temple Meads to London Waterloo via Southampton Central as it does via Salisbury. It's not that much further to be honest, and avoids the engineering.
You have to get a FGW 158 from Bristol on a Portsmouth Harbour train and change at Southampton, but you were already resigned to having to change trains anyway, so...