Chauffeur Services in Weymouth

Nothing local is more useful to know than the Town Bridge lift. Through the season it runs to a published timetable and holds traffic several minutes on both sides of the harbour, which starts to matter when a train or a flight waits at the far end of the journey. So we check the schedule and decide which side of the harbour to approach from, rather than watching the barriers come down with fifteen minutes in hand.

One way onto Portland, one way off. The causeway that carries the A354 along Chesil Beach is the sole road link, it slows in season, and in severe weather it closes altogether when waves come over the top. Cruise calls at Portland Port throw coach and car traffic at it in bursts. For an early Southampton flight we would leave Weymouth about three hours ahead, and starting from Portland itself we would add another twenty minutes for the causeway.

On a long journey, Britain's weather does more damage than its traffic ever will. Winter afternoons close in early, and that matters a great deal when the final leg is a single-track road. Highland and moorland routes can run substantially longer than any summer estimate suggests. Those allowances go into the timings from the start, rather than being discovered together halfway up a glen. Where a departure hour makes the schedule uncomfortable, we propose a better one.

Demand tracks the calendar closely. Bank holiday weekends fill fast, so do the weeks either side of Christmas, the summer wedding season and those university terms that all begin and end together. The further from London a journey runs, the sooner a car wants committing to it. Midweek travel in the shoulder months, by contrast, is the easiest thing in the world to arrange.