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Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/988 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Monday, 24th July 2006 First are looking for pictures for their 2007 calendar .... favourite journeys on their Network. [url]http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=305[/url] Some of my favourites involve the Swindon to Southampton service, the cheerful staff and the ability to get home by public transport. Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1014 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 25th July 2006 Want to see my submissions? Calendar 2007 link enjoy! Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1016 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 25th July 2006 Like them is this your new job? ??? Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1017 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 25th July 2006 [quote author=Sion Bretton link=topic=341.msg1016#msg1016 date=1153852930] Like them is this your new job? ??? [/quote] Here is my favourite quote from Graham's calendar : "First Great Western now provides the lifeline to many towns and villages throughout the West of England. Here's a Westbury to Swindon train leaving Melksham station one day. It looks quiet, so you may be surprised to learn that there's an average of 32 people travelling on each single coach train on this line, and that traffic has grown 8 fold in the past 5 years." Somehow I think that Graham is happy with his current role. ;D Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1019 Written by Nick Field on Tuesday, 25th July 2006 ;D ;D A photo of mine will be winging its way to FGW..... PS Graham I notice on your website you have a lot of nice pictures of Wiltshire and the surrounding area - reminds me of what a beautiful area I live in. Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1050 Written by Nick Field on Friday, 28th July 2006 Here is the picture I have entered into the competition:  This was taken from my front garden and shows our train passing on the line in the background. I found it very difficult to get the timing right with the moving train and as you can see it has almost disappeared behind the house opposite. I had several goes and got lots of odd looks from passers but when I was loitering around pointing a camera at the line and when I leaped out of the front door having nearly missed it. I sent it to FGW with a slightly sarcastic comment about how I would be hoping to use these trains or see more of them passing in the future! I am afraid it is not a patch on Grahams calender and somehow I dont think it will win the competition!! Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1113 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 4th August 2006 Shortlist of 24 goes up later today .... Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1119 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 4th August 2006 Nope - none of our pictures nor anything anywhere nearby in the final 24. Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1124 Written by Nick Field on Friday, 4th August 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=341.msg1119#msg1119 date=1154708524] (none in Somerset, none in Wiltshire, none in Dorset, none in Hampshire ...) [/quote] Perhaps first still aren't quite used to the fact that they now cover a wider area ! Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1126 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 4th August 2006 From a railway company's marketing viewpoint, it's natural for them to want to show pictures of their long distance holiday type destinations, in areas where they have the most of the market. There ARE Looe and St Ives pictures, both former Wessex Trains lines, and which still have a usable service from December, but nothing for Newquay which, like Melksham, is set for an off-peak only service as from December (Three trips in the middle of the day by a unit that provided peak services in the Plymouth area, then one mid-evening). Having said that, the pictures are very fine ones; one or two I question, but that's purely my personal taste. Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1530 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 26th September 2006 Its the moment you've all been waiting for.....(link below.) http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/NewsItem.aspx?id=396 Re: Favourite Journey? Mine usually involves the Swindon - Westbury train - 341/1531 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 26th September 2006 From the West .... Cornwall 6 Devon 1 South Wales 2 Somerset 0 Bristol / BANES 0 Gloucestershire 0 Hereford and Worcester 0 Dorset 0 Wiltshire 0 Hampshire 0 Sussex Oxon 2 Berkshire 1 London 0 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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