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Harris Refuses To Meet More Train , Less Strain - 1361/3814 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 7th February 2007 From the More Train , Less Strain website : MINISTER REFUSES TO MEET MTLS. Tom Harris has refused to meet with us, though Don Foster MP is willing to make a second approach to him to request a meeting on ouir behalf if we can provide him with a dossier showing that FGW still isn't working. We want to make sure that our dossier is not a dodgy one, unlike the one used by the government to start the IRAQ war. To help us compile the dossier we need YOU to post your bad experiences on the forum now (http://forum.moretrainlessstrain.co.uk/) Re: Harris Refuses To Meet More Train , Less Strain - 1361/3823 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 8th February 2007 I'm not entirely surprised - more "smoke and mirrors" stuff. I was hearing that train lengths are already slipping back, and that Wessex badged trains have been photographed as far away as Edinburgh! Re: Harris Refuses To Meet More Train , Less Strain - 1361/3899 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 13th February 2007 Alexander & Harris have now also refused to meet Oxfordshire MPs (link below.) http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/02/minister_snubs_rail_talks_plea.html#more Re: Harris Refuses To Meet More Train , Less Strain - 1361/4018 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 21st February 2007 Alison Forster is now to meet with MTLS at Swindon on 13th March. Tom Stables , FGW Commercial Director will also attend. Re: Harris Refuses To Meet More Train , Less Strain - 1361/4023 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 21st February 2007 [quote author=Lee link=topic=1361.msg4018#msg4018 date=1172079631] Alison Forster is now to meet with MTLS at Swindon on 13th March. Tom Stables , FGW Commercial Director will also attend. [/quote] An email just received from Alison confirms that "our current review is continuing and we will consider making further changes, over the next few months" and "In addition we will be making a bid for further revisions to the December 2007 timetable". 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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