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Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6417 Written by Lee on Saturday, 21st July 2007 Anybody caught up in this? (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6908925.stm Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6427 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 21st July 2007 We were caught up with customers wanting to return to London on Friday night, and more customers arriving that night and today. For Friday night's group, we got them a lift of to Basingstoke where SWT didn't appear to be in meltdown, and the arrivals came by road via the A4 for Reading - a long journey. Much easier for today's arrivals. Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6436 Written by Sion Bretton on Sunday, 22nd July 2007 Friday it was very bad at Temple meads, I was put on a 125 train that ran Bristol to Chippenham , then taxi to Melksham, arrived at temple Meads at 17.15 in my front door at 19.45. Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6446 Written by Lee on Monday, 23rd July 2007 Melksham certainly didnt escape (link below.) http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/latestheadlines/display.var.1563340.0.melksham_floods_in_pictures.php#comments Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6448 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Monday, 23rd July 2007 That's what we call "Lake Melksham" ;D ... search for that on Google and see what you get. I understand that some groups took 90 minutes to get from Lacock (on the West of the Avon) to Sandridge (about five miles away as the crow flies on the East) on Saturday evening. Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6453 Written by Nick Field on Monday, 23rd July 2007 Off the rail topic slightly but I understand that the 'Mid' and 'Upper' River Avon is on 'Flood Watch' alert from Malmesbury through to Bradford on Avon: http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/mapController http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/floodwarning/Southwest.html Re: Flooding In Wiltshire Disrupts FGW Services - 3086/6455 Written by Nick Field on Monday, 23rd July 2007 Some images of how bad things have been in other area's on FGW's website: http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=1547 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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