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Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/5539 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 5th June 2007 Freight services that use the Melksham line have received rail freight grants from the DfT (link below.) http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=289148&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/5541 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 5th June 2007 So let's get this right . 44000k in grants for FREIGHT for the environmental gains, but no 300k for PASSENGERS which would take many cars off the road AND would add huge convenience. Is that right? Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/5543 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 5th June 2007 So it would appear. Mendip Rail & Yeoman already , at varying levels of service , run freight trains via the Melksham line. What I dont know (as yet) is whether any of the other grants (eg Freightliner , GB Railfreight) are for new services via the Melksham line. If they are , then that of course would be extremely significant. Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/5598 Written by Lee on Saturday, 9th June 2007 From the EWS response to Network Rail's Consultation on the Freight Route Utilisation Strategy dated September 2006 (Page 15 of the link below.) http://www.ews-railway.co.uk/news/downloads/EWS%20RESPONSE%20TO%20DRAFT%20FREIGHT%20RUS.pdf "There is only one scheme to resolve the capacity constraints at Reading West, which is the diversion of freight services via Melksham. Under the cost column it states Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/6495 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 25th July 2007 More rail freight grants (again including some for services that run on the Melksham line) have been announced by the DfT (links below.) http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?ReleaseID=302424&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDepartment=False http://www.dft.gov.uk/press/speechesstatements/statements/statebarkingtogospeloak http://www.rmtbristol.org.uk/2007/07/dft_awards_over_20_mln_stg_in.html#more Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/6512 Written by Lee on Thursday, 26th July 2007 Here is a reply to a related FOI request (link below.) http://www.dft.gov.uk/foi/responses/2007/july2007/railfreightgrants/ Re: Mendip Rail & Yeoman Among DfT Rail Freight Grant Beneficiaries - 2478/8734 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 21st November 2007 More DfT freight grants announced , with several Freightliner grants kicking in in 2008 / 2009 (link below.) http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/freight/railfreight/rfg/pnrailfreightgrants 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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