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Transport 2000 Weakest Link Competition - 2827/6066 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 3rd July 2007 Transport 2000 has launched a competition to find the train stations in England and Wales that are most difficult to travel to (links below.) http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=393 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=PcEpPJbr6Jzp7mdXX_2fD3mw_3d_3d Re: Transport 2000 Weakest Link Competition - 2827/7175 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 More on this in the link below. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6965043.stm Re: Transport 2000 Weakest Link Competition - 2827/7177 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 I have followed up with the following comment which I hope that the BBC will accept / add to the thread: [quote]Here in Melksham - a town of approaching 24,000 - our railway station is in the back of an industrial estate. Re: Transport 2000 Weakest Link Competition - 2827/7178 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 Transport 2000 have highlighted Melksham as one of four worthy of specific comment on the South West. See: http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=414 Re: Transport 2000 Weakest Link Competition - 2827/7179 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 Quote from the Transport 2000 press release : "Bristol Temple Meads was highlighted by respondents as being poorly-signposted from the town centre and lacking a bus connection to the Bedminster area." Just a thought , but why not use the train? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedminster_railway_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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