We've now had well over 2500 unique host computers visit the "Save the Train" web site and well over 100 have signed up to the cause.  That's a far cry from the 7 (which didn't include me) who wrote last Easter to the SRA to object to the plans; no lack of interest at least on my part - simply because I didn't know of the threat.  It's kind of hard to write your comments about a plan if you don't even know about that plan.

From observing the trains with a view to forming as complete a picture as I could on individual weekdays last September and December, and from a whole host of other more casual observations, I've concluded that somewhere between 1 in 3 and 1 in 4 passengers who are one the train arriving at or leaving Melksham actually get on or off - the rest are through passengers.  And one of the difficulties of the campaign has been to reach the travellers (and especially the occasional ones) in this group.

If over 27000 tickets were sold to and from Melksham in the last complete financial year, and for each ticket sold there were between 2 and 3 ADDITIONAL travellers on the line, we're looking at an annual footfall of around 100000.