Star is set on the old Somerset and Dorset line between Bath and Bournemouth.

The company continues to operate service 12 between Bath and Whiteway.

In November 2011 the navigation between Bath and Bristol was closed because of safety concerns about Victoria Bridge.

This was built to replace a ford that was one of the last impediments to navigation between Bristol and Bath.

Service on the original B&H between Bath and Hammondsport has also been discontinued.

Newbury was roughly half way between London and Bath and an obvious stopping point in the two-day journey.

The overall record attendance is 32,488 for a rugby union match between Leicester Tigers and Bath in 2006.

The canal between Newbury and Bath opened in 1810.

There was also a nightly mail and parcels train between Bath and the Midlands.

Four trains a day stopped at Twerton in each direction (out of eleven services each way between Bath and Bristol).