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Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11246 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 2nd April 2008 Today is the formal launch of our "pledge page" - we have been challenged to show support for the return of a more appropriate TransWilts train service, and to keep the topic in the public eye and in the eyes of the train operator, the local transport authority, and the central government department who decide on these things. Can you put YOUR name to the following? I support the return of a more appropriate train service linking the five largest population centres in Wiltshire, as shown in (or similar to) draft timetables from December 2008 ? If so, please sign up here: [url]http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/pledge.html[/url] If you want to know more, please visit the same page which has extra information and links. Current service - 2 poorly timed trains a day. The prize - six a day with decent timing too! Is this important? Yes - I'll quote from my inbox this morning: [color=Maroon]"I used to use this service. Then it was cut so I had to leave my job in Swindon as I couldn't get there by train. I am certainly willing to help on that one it used to be a really busy service - sadly they got basically rid of it."[/color] Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11257 Written by Nick Field on Wednesday, 2nd April 2008 There has been a big publicity drive on BBC Radio Wilts today, it has been mentioned very half an hour in the news bullitins Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11276 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Thursday, 3rd April 2008 We're getting some excellent early support - only launched yesterday, and already over 70 names including some quite notable ones, and some links starting to appear: http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/save_the_train Mind you - with a name like "better transport" ... that's pretty much what we're about too! Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11277 Written by Sion Bretton on Thursday, 3rd April 2008 Links are now on the following sites: WWW.MRDG.ORG.UK MELKSHAM RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT GROUP WWW.WWRDG.ORG.UK WEST WILTSHIRE RAIL USERS GROUP Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11278 Written by Lee on Thursday, 3rd April 2008 Link up on CANBER website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/G1517 Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11285 Written by Lee on Friday, 4th April 2008 Ivybridge Rail Users Group link. http://www.irug.ik.com/links/all.ikml Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11329 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 5th April 2008 [quote author=Lee link=topic=6716.msg11285#msg11285 date=1207306885] Ivybridge Rail Users Group link. http://www.irug.ik.com/links/all.ikml [/quote] Thanks ... looks like we're getting widespread support. And indeed we've had over 100 people sign up already - that's quite impressive in just three days, considering links are just going up and we're just starting to tell people about the page! Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11355 Written by Lee on Sunday, 6th April 2008 And the Save The Train team has news of more links. http://www.ernieclark.org.uk/newsdetail.php?newsid=536 http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/blogs/traintalk/ Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11386 Written by WyvusArconius on Tuesday, 8th April 2008 Is it worth seeing if we can get a poster up in the WWRUG sign board at trowbridge? Might catch the eyes of those who havent before. Also, is it worth trying to get posters up in the noticeboards of the towns concerned? Might draw more people in... Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11422 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 9th April 2008 The Save The Train Pledge Campaign spreads further links-wise. http://tehmina.org/2008/04/09/take-the-pledge/ http://ihatefirstgreatwestern.blogspot.com/2008/04/ignorant-and-gay-and-cry-for-help.html Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11433 Written by Sion Bretton on Wednesday, 9th April 2008 As for WWRUG noticed board at Trowbridge I check with chairman if it is ok Graham I let you know. Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11446 Written by Nick on Thursday, 10th April 2008 I want to help- :)I think if I posted some campaign notices through peoples letterboxes then we could get more signatures. What info should they have....(the new proposal, the website address, what else?) Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/11450 Written by Nick on Thursday, 10th April 2008 I used your words mostly....it's only a draft, but would that have all the info needed? Re: Support page - please add YOUR voice to the call for appropriate service - 6716/12558 Written by Nick on Saturday, 14th June 2008 How has the campaign come along? Have the authorities been presented the petition yet? 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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