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No TransWilts Evening Service (27/10/2008) - 7936/12817 Written by Lee on Monday, 27th October 2008 From the FGW website : 17:02 Worcester Foregate Street to Southampton Central due 20:46 This train has been terminated at Chippenham.It will no longer call at: Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Dilton Marsh, Warminster, Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton Central.This is due to a train fault. 21:20 Southampton Central to Westbury due 22:30 This train will be cancelled.This is due to an earlier broken down train. 19:32 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 21:27 This train has been cancelled.This is due to an earlier broken down train. Update - the 1932 will now run, but only between Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa. Re: No TransWilts Evening Service (27/10/2008) - 7936/12818 Written by Sion Bretton on Monday, 27th October 2008 The 19.01 left Chippenham and broken down I was on it. We had to wait for a train to come up from Bristol to tow us to Bath then 5 of us for Melksham were put into a taxi. So a 10 minute train trip took almost 2hours. Re: No TransWilts Evening Service (27/10/2008) - 7936/12819 Written by James on Monday, 27th October 2008 [quote author=Sion Bretton link=topic=7936.msg12818#msg12818 date=1225147843] The 19.01 left Chippenham and broken down I was on it. We had to wait for a train to come up from Bristol to tow us to Bath then 5 of us for Melksham were put into a taxi. So a 10 minute train trip took almost 2hours. [/quote] It did break down yes! I presume it was a 153? But they got you to your destination - so how about as well as quite rightly moaning, perhaps showing a little thanks at the same time to the team who helped you out? I will always maintain we are quick to moan and slow to thank.... Re: No TransWilts Evening Service (27/10/2008) - 7936/12822 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 28th October 2008 We are indeed quick to moan and slow to thank. But ... Under the terms of the franchise, FGW should have run ten trains calling at Melksham over the last three days ... but for various reasons, some outside their control, they have managed a grand total of two. On the TransWilts, we still have a lot to moan about. 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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