FOAK: Bristol airport to Chippenham/Calne

Anyone know the cheapest (and fairly quick) way to get from Brizzle
airport to the Chippenham/Calne area?

Ma's looking at buying a new motor and weighing up the cost to send me
to collect it v. the large delivery charge.

Flying to BRS is preferable to spending 6 hrs on multiple trains and
only costs £20 more.

 

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Bugger! That'll probably cost the same as the flight...

 

Nonsense.

30 minutes on the coach from the airport to Temple Meads and 25 minutes
on the train from there to Chippenham. £11.40 all in.

 

Manchester (IIRC) to Chippenham = 4hrs 17min one change.

Open single (use on any train) £48.50 std or £109 first class - much
cheaper booked in advance to use on a specific train.

 

Handy..

How often do they run?

 

Higgins is outing the ragtop?

When are you planning to travel? I've got to nip over to Chippenham
sometime this week, and I could detour via Lulsgate.

 

Coach, every 15 minutes. Train, **** knows. Every half hour, at a guess.

However, once you factor in airport transit, check-in, flight, arrivals,
and the connections, you may be better off taking the train all the way.
I had to pop up to Newcastle for a meeting a few months ago and the
door-to-door journey by train was 30 minutes quicker than by plane and
gave me a couple of hours of uninterrupted drinking time courtesy of
GNER.

 

http://www.thetrainline.com/

HTH

 

No, but he is considering Nigeing the SO people carrier as it now has
a brand new MOT. Much to my surprise.

 

Indeed. I'm off to Brussels in a couple of weeks and the train looks
like a winner on journey quality and cost (even paying 1st class to
London). I reckon there's only about half an hour in it by the time I
drive to Brizzle airport and then get into Brussels at the other end.

 

It'll be a Saturday, either 3rd or 10th.

I've done some more poking about and got the train down to £30 ish,
Wigan to Chippenham, via Brizzle and not much longer than Sweller's
time.

A valium should prevent me massacring fellow travelers...

 

I could be persuaded to use some free company diesel to help you out....

 

Cheers for the offer, it's all pretty much sorted now.