Trains through Trowbridge replaced with bus services

Great Western Railway will be providing rail replacement services

Essential maintenance works will affect railway passengers this weekend.

Work will be carried out in the Trowbridge area over weekends in February, impacting Great Western Railway Services.

Trains between Westbury and Bath Spa or Chippenham will be affected by track renewal work this weekend (10 and 11 February) and next weekend (17 and 18 February).

Great Western Railway (GWR) will be providing rail replacement services.

GWR has said trains between Swindon, Chippenham and Bath Spa are unaffected.

Trains will run between Cardiff Central or Gloucester and Bath Spa, and the same goes for trains between Portsmouth Harbour or Weymouth and Westbury

Replacement buses are planned between Bath Spa and Westbury, plus between Chippenham and Westbury.

Jordan Welsby, GWR station manager for Westbury, Wiltshire and Dorset, said the improvement work forms part of the company's "ongoing programme of maintenance", helping to ensure it can "continue to provide consistent and reliable services".

"We'll provide rail replacement services between Chippenham and Westbury or Bath Spa and Bradford-on-Avon every hour, and between Bath Spa and Westbury every 30 minutes," Mr Welsby said.

"In addition, First Bus will also allow customers to travel on their D1 buses between Bath and Westbury as well as their D2 or D2X buses between Bath and Frome.

"GWR customers can also travel on CrossCountry and South Western Railway services instead between Cardiff, Bristol or Bath and the South Coast via Reading.

"However, these alternative travel arrangements will make journeys longer, so please do check before you travel."