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Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12768 Written by Graz on Wednesday, 10th September 2008 Just thought I'd post this here for anyone who missed it at the Coffeeshop. today (10th sept) the line is closed at Trowbridge thanks to a fire, so tonight's and most likely tomorrow morning's Melksham services will be cancelled. Services between Bath and Westbury are affected too, some trains are running between Bradford-on-avon and Bath. Re: Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12769 Written by James on Wednesday, 10th September 2008 As I am banned from there, I shall post the latest update I have here! There is roughly a 2 hourly service currently serving Trowbridge (or at least visiting Trowbridge!). These trains generally seem to be the odd hours from Bristol TM in the stopping path (i.e 19.49). They are then forming the stopping service back, which in this case will be 20.44 from Trowbridge. Trains are serving Platform 1..... Re: Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12770 Written by James on Thursday, 11th September 2008 [quote author=James link=topic=7922.msg12769#msg12769 date=1221073476] As I am banned from there, I shall post the latest update I have here! There is roughly a 2 hourly service currently serving Trowbridge (or at least visiting Trowbridge!). These trains generally seem to be the odd hours from Bristol TM in the stopping path (i.e 19.49). They are then forming the stopping service back, which in this case will be 20.44 from Trowbridge. Trains are serving Platform 1..... [/quote] Which never did happen. Serveral peak services started at Bradford this morning... Re: Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12771 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 12th September 2008 Many thanks, Graham and Jim, for the inputs / feedback on this. As far as the TransWilts services were concerned, they were cut back to Swindon which I'm sure was much more operatinally convenient to FGW than running to Melksham :-\ ... even though there couldn't have been anything else coming through while the train turned around from 19:11 to 19:50, or from 06:40 to 07:17. Re: Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12772 Written by James on Friday, 12th September 2008 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=7922.msg12771#msg12771 date=1221207016] Many thanks, Graham and Jim, for the inputs / feedback on this. Re: Lineside fire at Trowbridge - line closed - 7922/12773 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 12th September 2008 [quote author=James link=topic=7922.msg12772#msg12772 date=1221235113] [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=7922.msg12771#msg12771 date=1221207016] Many thanks, Graham and Jim, for the inputs / feedback on this. 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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