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Service Cuts / No Service For Large New Housing Developments? - 550/1610 Written by Lee on Thursday, 12th October 2006 MELKSHAM - New housing development adjacent to station. - From December 2006 , train service due to be cut from 5 well - used round trips a day to 2 inconveniently timed round trips a day. SALTASH - New housing development adjacent to station. - From December 2006 , train service due to be cut by 25% PILNING - Redrow Homes has long-standing planning permission for industrial and other uses on a site near to station. - From December 2006 , train service due to be cut from daily to weekly. RADSTOCK - New housing development adjacent to proposed new station site. - No sign of restored passenger rail service. Here is a link on the PORTISHEAD Railway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portishead_Railway Quote from the above link : "Between 2000 and 2002 the railway was repaired as far as Pill, and a short spur constructed to the Royal Portbury Dock to transport freight, at a cost of Re: Service Cuts / No Service For Large New Housing Developments? - 550/1611 Written by Lee on Thursday, 12th October 2006 MELKSHAM - Service 234 (operated by First) from Melksham to be re - routed via Chippenham railway station. SALTASH - Buses every 10 minutes from Plymouth railway station (operated by First.) PILNING - Buses roughly every 2 hours (to station road turning , and Pilning village) from Bristol City Centre and both Clifton Down & Severn Beach stations (operated by South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach , a company with links to First , click on http://www.southglos.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/info/about.htm) RADSTOCK - Showcase Bus Routes approved from both Bath & Bristol ( Re: Service Cuts / No Service For Large New Housing Developments? - 550/1612 Written by Lee on Thursday, 12th October 2006 An MP is supporting a proposal for house builders to help finance the reopening of a rail link between Oxford and Cambridge (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6044036.stm The Transport Department said it cannot fund new track and station rebuilding. Phyllis Starkey , MP for Milton Keynes SW , said developers building homes on the route could finance the rail line. 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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