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Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9448 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 20080115 18:06 London Paddington 20:03 Frome short working, weather issues, knock-on effect Full report: "This train has been diverted.It will additionally call at: Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge.It will no longer call at: Theale, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, Hungerford, Bedwyn and Pewsey.This is due to flooding earlier. " Congratulations, FGW, for re-planning in this way Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9449 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 see... now why cant they do that every evening.. would be a good connection. And one in the morning going early to london? .. ah we can dream cant we! Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9450 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 [quote author=WyvusArconius link=topic=5272.msg9449#msg9449 date=1200415125] see... now why cant they do that every evening.. would be a good connection. And one in the morning going early to london? .. ah we can dream cant we! [/quote] It would be extremely sensible to run Frome to Paddington via Melksham every morning - EXCEPT it might lead to an unacceptable gap in service or lack of seats via Newbury. I've not looked at the timetable for each of the intermediate stations that that From calls at, but I'm certain that a direct service from the County town to and from Paddington would be a winner. Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9452 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 As i feared... this evenings services are cancelled... Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9453 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 [quote author=WyvusArconius link=topic=5272.msg9452#msg9452 date=1200420691] As i feared... this evenings services are cancelled... [/quote] And they've now gone and cancelled the extra service but not re-instated our own trains, leaving Melksham with [color=Red]no service at all![/color] Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9456 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 15th January 2008 Yes this train ran the route on the Wilts & Hants we were put into a taxi at Chippenahm. Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9463 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 16th January 2008 How to turn what could have been a really positive story (care and attention for TransWilts Passengers, excellent use of new options provided by Selective Door Opening) into the opposite! Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9475 Written by Dawn on Wednesday, 16th January 2008 Sion Were you on the 18:30 from BTM? If so how come we didn't get put in the same taxi? Dawn Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9480 Written by Sion Bretton on Wednesday, 16th January 2008 No I was on the 18:00 out of TM they waut for 18.45 arrived from London. Re: Extra service this evening - through train from London - 5272/9488 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 17th January 2008 I've pasted the false promise made of a proper service the other night here ... [url]http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5293.0[/url] ... and what a sane service it would have been! 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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