Hi,

I've been reading this site for some time but only just got round to registering.

I'm a long suffering Dilton Marsh - Swindon commuter!!

Hi, Ivan, and welcome ... the silly thing about all of this is that so many of the ills could be fixed for so little ... we must go on trying to get a sensible service otherwise the current impractical one will be withdrawn under the pretense than no-one uses it.

Is Fleur de Rhe Philipe your local county councillor?  If she is, did you know that the County Council is the Transport Authority for the area, and she's the cabinet (responsible) member on the County Council for Transport. It might be more that helpful to lobby her - and to get your neighbours to do so too - to work WITH the DfT to provide a mutual funding package for the cross-Wilts train service up from Salisbury via Dilton Marsh and Melksham to Swindon.  If you've been reading the forum for a while, you'll know that route would link the five largest population centres in the county