Save the Melksham Train
April and May '08 ...
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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

TransWilts train - what YOU can do to help
Please let people know you want the service back. Let them know it will continue to grow. Let them know how much it matters to YOU. Let them know that it was growing and will do again.

Who are the key players? A key and complex question - there are a very large number of players involved, and people point at each other. But here are the people who have influence and should be lobbied!

The Department for Transport
Tom Harris, Minister responsible for railways.
Andrew Nock - responsible for negotiations on the ground

First Great Western
Alison Forster, their MD
Andrew Griffiths, Regional Manager covering the line

Wiltshire County Council.
George Batten, Director of environmental services
Fleur de Rhe-Philipe - elected representative responsible for transport.

And please contact Your MP and your county concillor too.

Please also visit our forum and keep in touch with the opertors of this web site!


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