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Petition to PM for an adequate, reliable train service closes 7.2.07 - 1142/3270 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 20th January 2007
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide a reliable train service with adequate capacity at times that travellers wish to make journeys from Swindon to Westbury, Bristol to Severn Beach, Portsmouth and Weymouth to Cardiff, Taunton to Cheltenham, Swindon to Cheltenham. This includes all intermediate stations and journeys in both directions."
Petition on the PM's web site - run by the government, government comes back with an real answer by email to each person who signs up.
The TransWilts service (Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, Warninster, Salisbury) is at the forefront of this campaign, and we're intentionally making what we believe is a very reasonable request - for an adequate number of trains to meet passenger requirements, reliable and with reasonable capacity for now and into the future.
[url]http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/wessextrains/[/url]
As I write this, we're into our third full day, and we're in the top 150 of over 2000 petitions.
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham.
Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome.
The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users.
We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can.
-- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021
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