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Recent usage stats - 26/30 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Sunday, 25th September 2005 Tickets sold for journeys to or from Melksham April 2003 to March 2004 ... 20390 April 2004 to March 2005 ... 27485 The increase is all the more remarkable because Melksham station had its TRAIN SERVICE WITHDRAWN for two weeks in August 2004 ... with no priot notice, since the line was being used for the diversion of West of England main line trains after the accident near Reading. Future plans in (from December 2006) are based on a specification drawn up in early 2005, so the latest figures that they will have had available would be the 2003/2004 stats ... Re: Recent usage stats - 26/42 Written by Nick Field on Friday, 30th September 2005 Proof that Melksham trains ARE being used and passenger numbers ARE gowing :) Re: Recent usage stats - 26/97 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 27th October 2005 And a couple of other facts ... 1. Ticket sales in 2000/2001 were just over 3200 - that's one eighth of the current level. So we're getting growth on growth 2. I understand from a "regular" the the lunchtime train from Westbury to Swindon is getting noticably busier - an estimated 25% increase since March ... Re: Recent usage stats - 26/98 Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 27th October 2005 I have not counted any numbers or looked at any stats but i am convinced that whenever i use the line that the trains have slowly got busier over the last couple of years Re: Recent usage stats - 26/99 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 27th October 2005 [quote author=Nick Field link=topic=26.msg98#msg98 date=1130401213] I have not counted any numbers or looked at any stats but i am convinced that whenever i use the line that the trains have slowly got busier over the last couple of years [/quote] Yes. Sales of tickets to or from Melksham: Re: Recent usage stats - 26/126 Written by chrisbastian on Friday, 25th November 2005 Just for the record, 23 on today's lunchtime train between Trowbridge and Melksham, with a less impressive 12 on the return at 14.49. Re: Recent usage stats - 26/127 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 26th November 2005 [quote author=chrisbastian link=topic=26.msg126#msg126 date=1132958737] Just for the record, 23 on today's lunchtime train between Trowbridge and Melksham, with a less impressive 12 on the return at 14.49. [/quote] Welcome, Chris. 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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