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Severn Beach Line Closed From 1500 (03/02/2007) - 1306/3692 Written by Lee on Saturday, 3rd February 2007 From FOSBR (Joe Patrick) : As from the 1508 Bristol TM - Severn Beach and the 1522 Severn Beach - Bristol TM TODAY (Sat 3rd Feb) there will be no trains for the rest of the day - trains replaced by buses. I've just found this on National Rail Enquiries and had no idea this was happenning. There were no posters at stations I use (to my knowledge) & it was very badly publicised. I hope nobody gets caught out, the bus from Severn Beach takes a whopping 1h 5m! Re: Severn Beach Line Closed From 1500 (03/02/2007) - 1306/3693 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 3rd February 2007 Huh? Does that leave a train stranded out at Severn Beach? Re: Severn Beach Line Closed From 1500 (03/02/2007) - 1306/3694 Written by Lee on Saturday, 3rd February 2007 Update from FGW website : 14:22 Severn Beach to Bristol Temple Meads due 15:00 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable due to sickness. Road replacement transport has been arranged. 14:08 Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach due 14:45 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable due to sickness. Road replacement transport has been arranged. 13:08 Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach due 13:45 This train will be cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable due to sickness. Road replacement transport has been arranged. Re: Severn Beach Line Closed From 1500 (03/02/2007) - 1306/3716 Written by Graz on Saturday, 3rd February 2007 Typical this should happen on the day I take a day trip to Severn Beach with my friend! Luckily though, we left at 12:22! Very smooth journeys, no problems. Beautiful views of the Avon gorge and Severn estuary. I'll probably take a bike up there next time and go accross the old Severn Bridge! EDIT: I didn't see any posters, notices, or information about the closure anywhere when I travelled in the morning either. The only thing I did see was when I got back to Temple Meads after a day in Bristol-- a Severn Beach service was on the monitors, but marked as 'Bus' with a note 'Departs from front of the station'. 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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