I've always kept this site focussed on the train service from Swindon to Southampton via Melksham, Westbury and Salisbury .... with one eye open to the rest of / overall political scene.  I've simply not had the time and resources to fight the other battles that have been going on, although I've had an eye open to lessons they teach us.

Yesterday, I put together two articles - just published as our battle and part of a planned war? that look wider, considering whether Melksham is a one off case, or an omen of things to come in the East and West Midlands.

Regrettably, I look at some of the wording, figures, proposals and have to end up listing some 20 or so services from  Stourbridge to Skegness and from Watford to Walsall that look less than guaranteed into the future.