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December 24, 2006
Christmas, 2006
"Not with a roar, but ith a whimper". The last day of train service before Chistmas 2006 and Melksham, population 24,000 and growing rapidly, has just a single train calliung today at 19:51. What a pretty mess for a service that grew many-fold in the first five years of this decade, from a quiet service with the occasional passenger to - this summer and autumn - vibrant, well used trains; snuffed out by the DfT/First timetable "changes" on 10th December.
This is not a day for a heavy post. Just one to say that I do, I can see a candle in the wind and that could grow to a great fire. I hope it's not a mirage, but I see no harm in encouraging it - if it IS a miage all I'll be wasting is my time, and if it's not there is still the prize of an appropriate train service.
Have a good Christmas, everyone. 2007 might be the year of resurgaece ... there's better chance that I would have anticipated :-)
Posted by gje at December 24, 2006 02:14 PM