Save the Melksham Train
April and May '08 ...
Please show YOUR support for an appropriate TransWilts Service - sign up here.
You can see who has signed up here and learn more about how it works here
More details of the validated service.

Would you like 6 trains a day each way, or just 2, next year? Draft timetables which will be implemented with sufficient public and political support have been prepared bt First Great Western, validated by Network Rail, and run through the County Council for whom this is a strategic route in their current local transport plan - see box above.

See here for discussion forum on all of FGW area. See also Blog and Forum for latest details ... of service development for the whole "TransWilts" and for improvements at Melksham. Also Forum archive ... Blog archive

Community Support / Community Rail Partnership?
Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury
Onward to Dilton Marsh, Warminster and Salisbury
Also onward to Frome.

This line links the five largest population centres in Wiltshire, and could provide a superior alternative (faster, greener, more convenient) that bus and bus / rail combinations. To be viable, this alternative service needs to run at the time people wish to travel, and be reliable.

Current service - just 2 trains per day (06:19 and 18:42 off Swindon). Proposals for the timetable from December 2007 show a service every 2 hours (1 gap of 3 hours) with trains appopriately timed to meet most of the identified traffic flows.

I have been in correspondence with First and the Department for Transport over this service; in recent letters from the DfT, the importance of community support and the possibility of Community Rail Designation has been raised. To explore local support I am asking EVERYONE (organisations and individuals) who would consider offering assistance in any way to come along to Well House Manor for a 19:30 meeting on Monday, 5th March. I already have a number of acceptances to hand.

I WILL attend the meeting on 5th March
I will not be able to attend on 5th March, but I would like to consider supporting the initiative. Please give my apologies, and send me an update after the meeting.
I do not wish to consider supporting the initiative.
Your Name
Organisation represented (if any)
Email address
Phone number
Postal Address
Please meet me off the 19:08 train and help arrange transport home afterwards.
I would like to stay in Melksham overnight

My contact details - Graham Ellis of "Save the Train".
Phone - 01225 708225
email - graham@wellho.net
Meeting venue - Well House Manor, or download a map
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