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Illogical to stop at Westbury? - 44/77 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 14th October 2005 I notice that figures I've been quoted by the Depratment for Transport (and I've posted elsewhere) only quote traffic figures / they only did a survery, it seems, from Swindon to Westbury and back. And yet the current service carries on to Salisbury and beyond. I'm told of a study that comes down in strong favour of increasing the service from Salisbury to the North West through Warminster to half-hourly - apparently it's a big, well reasoned study very much supported by the County Council, so really the current running of the service from Chippenham to Trowbridge via Melksham ... and extended to Salisbury is logical and fits in well with that. For the future, this is perhaps evidence that the service continues to fit in well AS A THROUGH SERVICE at least to Salisbury ... and perhaps if the Department for Transport already has plans for "our" train at Swindon during the day, a half hourly Salisbury to Westbury with one train on to Bath and Bristol could become a half hourly service from Salisbury to Westbury with alternate trains going to to Bristol and Swindon .... Re: Illogical to stop at Westbury? - 44/79 Written by Nick Field on Friday, 14th October 2005 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=44.msg77#msg77 date=1129271876] Depratment for Transport [/quote] Hee Hee - Graham is that a typo or a genuine joke!! Re: Illogical to stop at Westbury? - 44/83 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 15th October 2005 [quote author=Nick Field link=topic=44.msg79#msg79 date=1129296918] [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=44.msg77#msg77 date=1129271876] Depratment for Transport [/quote] Hee Hee - Graham is that a typo or a genuine joke!! [/quote] That was a typo - but perhaps a freudean slip. 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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