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17:02 and 18:09 trains cancelled again, 22/11/2006 - 672/2024 Written by streety7 on Wednesday, 22nd November 2006 From the First Great Western website: "16:47 Westbury to Swindon due 17:31 22 November 2006 This train has been cancelled. Road transport will be provided to Chippenham." "17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44 22 November 2006 This train will be started from Westbury at 18:30. It will no longer call at: Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge. This is due to a problem with line-side equipment. road transport will be provided for customers from Chippenham." So there is no reason for the 17:02 cancellation... hmm... I also note that "road transport will be provided for customers to/from Chippenham" but not any other stations on the line? Quite a lot of updates on FGW website at the moment, another 7 in total, must be stock shortages or something?... Re: 17:02 and 18:09 trains cancelled again, 22/11/2006 - 672/2025 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 22nd November 2006 Here we go again. Re: 17:02 and 18:09 trains cancelled again, 22/11/2006 - 672/2029 Written by streety7 on Wednesday, 22nd November 2006 The 1743 Swindon - Southampton due 1944 calling at Melksham 1809 did not run at all in the end: "17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44 This train has been cancelled. This is due to earlier signalling problems." 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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