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1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 - 622/1872
Written by Lee on Thursday, 9th November 2006

From the First Great Western Website :

16:47 Westbury to Swindon due 17:31

This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.

17:43 Swindon to Southampton Central due 19:44

This train has been cancelled. This is due to a member of train crew being unavailable.


Re: 1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 - 622/1876
Written by Nick Field on Thursday, 9th November 2006

I'm not quite sure what to say about these as they seem to be happening more often other than that if I were a regular commuter on these services I think I would already be switching over to whatever my 'plan b' was.

PS Lee's post was at 11.31, thats some 5 hours before these services start.  Surely enough time to re roster staff or bring in additional staff? (overtime etc)

Re: 1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 - 622/1880
Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 9th November 2006

At least we knew well ahead .... I put my customers on the bus ....

Re: 1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 - 622/1892
Written by Graz on Friday, 10th November 2006

It was generally a bad day for FGW yesterday. In addition to the Melksham cancellations, the signalling problems at Cheltenham Spa were still causing widespread revisions and cancellations, two northbound Oldfield Park trains were cancelled, and some Paddington-Bristol trains were cancelled as well.

Re: 1702 & 1809 Melksham Trains Cancelled 09/11/2006 - 622/1898
Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Friday, 10th November 2006

Yes, you can expect bad days ... and I can very much sympathise with the operator on the occasions where things go wrong.

 
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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.

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