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Spare Parts. - 1205/3452 Written by sennencoveuk on Thursday, 25th January 2007 I commute from an unmanned station that has one of those automated-information points where you press a button and an electronic lady tells you when the next train is due etc. The station was recently maintained by Network Rail and in the process, they removed the front panel on the info-point Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3453 Written by Sion Bretton on Thursday, 25th January 2007 Which station do you use. Is it a FGW one? Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3455 Written by Graz on Thursday, 25th January 2007 More ineptness by the TOC and Network Rail. :-\ Those information points are extremely useful, if not essential. If you're on an unmanned station such as Oldfield Park waiting for a train, and don't have a phone/have no battery on it, etc, you have no other way of knowing if the train is going to arrive. And it's always good to know if the train is on time when you arrive at the station, too. I remember when I contacted Wessex trains when the info point at Oldfield Park wasn't working a few years ago, they were very grateful for me telling them and by the next day it was working. How times have changed... I assume, sennencoveuk, you mean the silver ones with the 2 buttons for each platform? There are also the blue telephone-based box ones. Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3468 Written by sennencoveuk on Thursday, 25th January 2007 1: The station is PATCHWAY which is a FGW station in North-West BRISTOL, next to Rolls-Royce. 2: The info-point is a silver-ish box with 2 flat, touch-sensitive 'buttons' on the front and a speaker. Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3469 Written by Graz on Thursday, 25th January 2007 Arriva Trains Wales uses these info points as well, I've seen exactly the same ones at Severn Tunnel Junction and Lydney. Seeing as they operate those stations, they may have some spare. It may also help that Patchway is fairly close to Wales! I'd do it soon, as any rain and such probably won't do the electrics any good. Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3495 Written by sennencoveuk on Friday, 26th January 2007 Graz, Re: Spare Parts. - 1205/3508 Written by Graz on Friday, 26th January 2007 I'd probably take a slightly less drastic approach! ;) I'd e-mail Arriva Trains Wales and see if they can supply one. Or contact your MP, and see if he can arrange to get one fitted from Arriva. It'd be a shame to see nothing done about it, so well done for trying to get this sorted. link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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