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Enhanced buses between Chippenham and Swindon - 455/1327 Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 31st August 2006 The number 55 bus route between these locations has been improved. Quote from the attached link: http://www.stagecoachbus.com/swindon/news2_2094.html 'Working in partnership with the Department for Transport and Wiltshire County Council, the route 55 'kickstart' scheme will increase the Chippenham Re: Enhanced buses between Chippenham and Swindon - 455/1329 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 1st September 2006 I've not seen the full detail yet, but from comments in an email from First Great Western I beleive that (some of) the new Stagecoach service o Chippenham will run to / from / via the railway station. Re: Enhanced buses between Chippenham and Swindon - 455/1338 Written by Lee on Friday, 1st September 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=455.msg1329#msg1329 date=1157084453]I've not seen the full detail yet, but from comments in an email from First Great Western I beleive that (some of) the new Stagecoach service o Chippenham will run to / from / via the railway station. Re: Enhanced buses between Chippenham and Swindon - 455/1376 Written by Lee on Monday, 4th September 2006 [quote author=Nick Field link=topic=455.msg1327#msg1327 date=1157051848]The number 55 bus route between these locations has been improved. Quote from the attached link: http://www.stagecoachbus.com/swindon/news2_2094.html 'Working in partnership with the Department for Transport and Wiltshire County Council, the route 55 'kickstart' scheme will increase the Chippenham 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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