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1449 Melksham Train Cancelled 28/11/2006 - 701/2089 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 28th November 2006 From the First Great Western Website : 14:23 Swindon to Southampton Central due 16:44 This train will be started from Westbury. It will no longer call at: Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham and Trowbridge. Road replacement transport will run between Chippenham and Westbury. The 1335 is showing as a No Report. Also : 15:32 Exeter St Davids to Westbury due 16:37 An additional train service has been planned to operate as shown 15:32 Exeter St Davids to Westbury due 16:37 run on 28/11/06. I would not be optimistic about the chances for the evening commuter trains. Re: 1449 Melksham Train Cancelled 28/11/2006 - 701/2090 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 28th November 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=701.msg2089#msg2089 date=1164723022] I would not be optimistic about the chances for the evening commuter trains. [/quote] Nope, the 17:43 from Swindon is cancelled too according to the First Bulletin I have just received. Re: 1449 Melksham Train Cancelled 28/11/2006 - 701/2094 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 28th November 2006 It looks like the last trains of the day have been cancelled as well (link below.) http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=646 "2211 Swindon to Westbury is cancelled. A coach will be available at Chippenham to connect to the 2115 out of London Paddington to Swansea." Re: 1449 Melksham Train Cancelled 28/11/2006 - 701/2096 Written by Sion Bretton on Tuesday, 28th November 2006 17.59 was cancelled they ran a bus. 11 got off at melksham 3 remained on the bus 1 got on at Melksham Re: 1449 Melksham Train Cancelled 28/11/2006 - 701/2098 Written by Nick Field on Wednesday, 29th November 2006 Sion as a regular commuter I am interested to know what your plans are concerning your travel arrangements after the timetable change, ie are you going to drive all the way, drive to another station and train it from there or bus it to another station then train etc etc? For me personally for the journeys I make I'll still try really hard to use the train if I want to travel at the time it is running, otherwise I'll probably end up using my car, or sometimes use the train via the Bath dogleg. 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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