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| How did the area around Melsham station use to be? These historic pictures have been supplied for our use here by the Melksham Historic Society and Tony Seager, to whom we give our grateful thanks. Please bear in mind that they retain copyright. Further old pictures of the station are on another page.  A train of feathers stands to the South of the Bath Road bridge in 1928  "The Flying Scotsman" came through Melksham on a special train a couple of years before the station closed for the first time  A further view of "The Flying Scotsman" - in this cas approaching Melksham and giving a godd view of the good yard to the North of the station.  The goods yard a number of years earlier. Melksham was a thriving freight centre for the railway, with a large staff and a large signal box.  The frontage of the station, after closure in 1966 but before demolition.  Passenger train at Melksham Station, circa 1920. Further historic pictures |
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