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Warminster/Dilton Marsh Cancellations (09/04/2008) - 6840/11421 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 9th April 2008 From the FGW website : 10:08 Westbury to Warminster due 10:16 This train has been cancelled.This is due to earlier signalling problems. 10:28 Warminster to Gloucester due 12:29 This train will be started from Westbury.It will no longer call at: Warminster and Dilton Marsh.This is due to earlier signalling problems. That means an out-of-spec 4-hour gap in services at Dilton Marsh in the Westbury direction. Alternatively, you can wait for the 1109 service to Southampton Central, and change at Warminster for the 1131 service to Great Malvern. This will add an extra hour to your journey northbound. Re: Warminster/Dilton Marsh Cancellations (09/04/2008) - 6840/11544 Written by Lee on Monday, 14th April 2008 Same again today (14/04/2008) : 10:28 Warminster to Gloucester due 12:29 This train will be started from Westbury.It will no longer call at: Warminster and Dilton Marsh.This is due to earlier signalling problems. Bear in mind that this service becomes the 1025 Warminster-Westbury in the May 2008 timetable. Re: Warminster/Dilton Marsh Cancellations (09/04/2008) - 6840/11566 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 15th April 2008 So as from May we have a Westbury - Warminster train, then a Warminster - Westbury? Neither going any further? How far ahead or behind is the closest other service (yes, not stopping at Dilton Marsh)? What proportion of Dilton Marsh passengers want to travel just to Westbury or Warminster? What are ongoing connections to Bath / Bristol, and to Salisbury, like? This does look to me like a bit of timetabling just to meet the spec, rather than giving considration to the Dilton Marsh customers; I know the argument has been had before but the odd middle of the day stop at Dilton Marsh doesn't seem such a crazy idea to me. Re: Warminster/Dilton Marsh Cancellations (09/04/2008) - 6840/11569 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 15th April 2008 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=6840.msg11566#msg11566 date=1208244801] So as from May we have a Westbury - Warminster train, then a Warminster - Westbury? 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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