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Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/430 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 8th March 2006 3 p.m. - Great Bedwyn Village Hall. Michael Ancram, who covers Melksham, Pewsey and Bedwyn stations will be attending a meeting, perhaps talking a bit, listening to representations. really a "Bedwyn" meeting where they are threatened with a cut from a train every hour to London to a train every 2 hours, but also a public meeting and there is good scope for an overall input. I'm going and (provisionally) will be doing a few minutes "where did we get here" on Michael's three stations. Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/433 Written by Nick Field on Wednesday, 8th March 2006 A real shame that most of the meetings are happening during working hours for many people as I would be interested in coming to some of them. Looking forward to hearing the outcome from the meeting Graham Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/434 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 8th March 2006 It's a Sunday, Nick, unless I got the date wrong .... Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/435 Written by Nick Field on Wednesday, 8th March 2006 Ah I misunderstood Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/444 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 10th March 2006 Note to all - I will be there and I WILL be talking Melksham. Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/448 Written by Sion Bretton on Friday, 10th March 2006 MP reply to my letter about Melksham by say thank you for your letter regarding changes to Bedwyn rail services. Is he just dealing with Bedwyn ( as this is on the line to London!). I have written back to ask about Melksham. Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/450 Written by Nick Field on Friday, 10th March 2006 [quote author=Sion Bretton link=topic=181.msg448#msg448 date=1142027341] MP reply to my letter about Melksham by say thank you for your letter regarding changes to Bedwyn rail services. Is he just dealing with Bedwyn ( as this is on the line to London!). I have written back to ask about Melksham. [/quote] I had a reply from wilts county council adressed to me but which started 'Dear Mr Bretton' Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/452 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Sunday, 12th March 2006 Aren't work processors wonderful. Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/454 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Sunday, 12th March 2006 A well packed meeting at Re: Michael Ancram at Great Bedwyn Village Hall - 12.3.06 - 181/459 Written by Sion Bretton on Monday, 13th March 2006 Was there because people use Bedwyn to travel to work in London (direct train :-[) I hope he keeps to what he said. 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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