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October 24, 2007
Comparing a Wiltshire town with a Norfolk one
The good people of Brandon, in Norfolk, have a railway station. There are just two platforms, bare, with the booking office now occupied by a company that's something to do with paint rather than railways. And they've got a train each way every hour or two, I am told. "Really not adequate" says one of them, who is on my course this week. "There's a bus too - going to Thetford as well and leaving at virtually the same time that the train goes".
"How big is Brandon" I ask. "Oh - several miles across - quite a big town". Hmm; I'm always interested in Melksham comparisons but "sevearl miles across" isn't the units I'm used to. Another delegate on the course searches online and finds that Brandon, at the last census, had a population around the 6500 mark - that's around a third of the size of Melksham.
I think I spot - yet again - a case where Melksham Station is so under-served that it verges on the malicious or negligent by whoever proposed the current service. Which is probably why everyone tries pointing at everyone else ...
Posted by gje at October 24, 2007 07:41 PM