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Passenger Management During Major Engineering Infrastructure Works - 604/1813 Written by Lee on Thursday, 2nd November 2006 I would imagine that this report will be of interest (link below.) http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_railways/documents/page/dft_railways_613540.pdf Re: Passenger Management During Major Engineering Infrastructure Works - 604/1816 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 2nd November 2006 From the report ... [quote] Further advances in the transfer of rail passengers to normal local bus services have been made more recently. Re: Passenger Management During Major Engineering Infrastructure Works - 604/1841 Written by Lee on Sunday, 5th November 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=604.msg1816#msg1816 date=1162492177] From the report ... [quote] Further advances in the transfer of rail passengers to normal local bus services have been made more recently. Re: Passenger Management During Major Engineering Infrastructure Works - 604/1846 Written by Lee on Monday, 6th November 2006 Here are three links , one contains a railway map of the area just before the closure of nearby Etruria station , one the SRA's reasons for closing Etruria , and the other has background information on the stations mentioned in the link above and the closure of Etruria. http://www.centraltrains.co.uk/upload/ctnetworkmap.pdf http://www.sra.gov.uk/news/2004/2/Etruria_release http://nsrly.blogspot.com/ If the similarities between these stations' predicament & Melksham's isnt frightening enough , the final link contains yet another devastingly accurate quote from David Redgewell of Transport 2000. "Nowhere in Europe would the government close a railway station when they are building new houses right next to it." [quote author=Lee link=topic=217.msg1706#msg1706 date=1161622839]Here is a link to a visionary November 2002 parliamentary presentation by David Redgewell of Transport 2000 (link below.) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmtran/125/125ap06.htm One quote in particular stands out : "A degree of regulation should also be specified, for instance, that the train arriving in Chippenham from Bristol shall be met in the forecourt by a linked Rail bus 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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