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WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/7616 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 14th September 2007 Public Meeting, West Wilts Raile user's Group. 19:00 to 21:00 at the Railway Inn, Westbury. Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/7629 Written by Sion Bretton on Saturday, 15th September 2007 Graham Are you going? as I will be there Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/7638 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Sunday, 16th September 2007 Probably - via route (c)! Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8102 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 9th October 2007 A difficult question I will be asking Andrew Griffiths tonight .... [url]http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/whytrust.html[/url] Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8103 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 9th October 2007 I will be waiting with baited breath to hear what he has to say to that! A very comphrensive question, and I hope we (you) get a very comphrensive reply. Best of luck to all those going. Daniel Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8105 Written by Industry Insider on Tuesday, 9th October 2007 And I hope he doesn't mention the December 2009 timetable... Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8110 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 9th October 2007 ... Doesn't even bear thinking about... *nervous smile* :-\ Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8113 Written by courgettelawn on Tuesday, 9th October 2007 Good luck all and please remember to bang on about the fact this is not just a West Wilts issue but a cross-Wilts one. With very much improved links between Southampton and Salisbury shortly coming into effect, an ideal opportunity to take advantage with offering onward journeys north. Re: WWRUG - Public Meeting - 9th October - 4023/8182 Written by Sion Bretton on Saturday, 13th October 2007 There were over 35 people at this meeting. link to index of articles |
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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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