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August 23, 2007
The Ghost Train, Purton
There's a degree of irony in the fact that my quest for an appropriate train service from South and West Wilts, Frome, Yeovil and Dorset up to Swindon took me to the village of Purton this morning. What's ironic? Searching around for a meeting venue that "Streetmap" had slightly wrong (or perhaps I had the postcode wrong!), I came across "The Ghost Train" pub.
Down beside the railway, a closed station but a pub that was still open. Had I had time to dally, no doubt I would have seen one of "FGW's train's go though. Had there been a station there and appropriate services, I could actually have ridden the train from Melksham up to my 07:00 meeting. That would have been first train of the day - 05:37 off Westbury - last year, and perhaps will be again some future year.
Posted by gje at August 23, 2007 04:23 PM
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we are the landlord and landlady of the ghost train pub and we are sadto tell u that the pub has been sold to be developed to be housing which is very sad as the building and station is steeped in history we are likely to be here for another couple of months and then it will be ghost train no more since 1840 when it was the railway hotel.
Posted by: carol andy waters at November 8, 2007 06:01 PM