Why don’t the buses connect with the trains at Bodmin Parkway Station?
This is a situation that is constantly reviewed on an on-going basis. Our timetables are set to run on clock-face timetables (which are how 98% of the users want them) and we connect into our own services at Wadebridge and Padstow. Significant sums of money were spent on doubling the Cornish mainline so that trains could also run on a clock-face headway and we could have good connections, but sadly the Department of Transport has not instructed First Great Western to do so, meaning trains arriving at all sorts of different times past the hour. Both ourselves and the Local Authorities have spent a great deal of time and effort trying to encourage the rail industry to introduce clock-face timetables, so that there could be joined up travel with buses, not only at Bodmin but also at many other places where the same problem exists. Unfortunately, this has not been successful. Any bus service is bound to please some customers but upset others – that is life. We are going with what the major
