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Topic: More detailed report (Read 2019 times)
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Graham Ellis
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I've just completed a 7 page report on the TransWilts options which are currently practical - the "open doors" that can be pushed on for service from this coming December. See here as a .pdf and here for the html optionPlease feel free to circulate the URLs and copies of the report, to write to the named decision makers (and other) to tell them your own thoughts on options, and feel free to ask me questions on what's there too. |
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« Last Edit: March 08, 2008, 06:02:12 AM by Graham Ellis »
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Nick
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When was that photo taken where Melksham station was completely crowded? How come there was such a surge of passengers there?
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Industry Insider
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Judging from the number of passengers and the general 'look' of them, I would guess it was a Saturday morning train with folk heading towards the shops on the 09:18 to Swindon.
This is currently the ONLY sensible option for shoppers by train on ANY day of the week in EITHER direction from Melksham - so no wonder quite a crowd had built up on the day in question!
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Graham Ellis
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Indeed, that's a Saturday picture. In that particular case it was an early December, and it had become known that Santa Claus was going to be on the return service. Shows what a tiny bit of publicity can do!
The Saturday morning train has, though, failed to run more often that not in the last four months - replaced by a bus due to engineering works on the Westbury to Swindon section, or on the Swindon to Gloucester line. As the train carries on from Swindon to Gloucester on a Saturday morning, it's operationally much more convenient for it to be simply left at Westbury when it can't complete the route than to do half the run,
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