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Evening Northbound TransWilts Train Terminates At Chippenham (17/04/2008) - 7000/11614 Written by Lee on Thursday, 17th April 2008 From the FGW website : 19:32 Westbury to Cheltenham Spa due 21:26 This train will be terminated at Chippenham.It will no longer call at: Swindon, Kemble, Stroud, Stonehouse, Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa.This is due to a line-side fire. Re: Evening Northbound TransWilts Train Terminates At Chippenham (17/04/2008) - 7000/11617 Written by Sion Bretton on Thursday, 17th April 2008 the 19.01 from chippenham was 30 delays as trains were using Melksham due to the fire. The train staff adv this service to Cheltenham was cancelled. Re: Evening Northbound TransWilts Train Terminates At Chippenham (17/04/2008) - 7000/11672 Written by Nick on Saturday, 19th April 2008 Line side fire? ??? Re: Evening Northbound TransWilts Train Terminates At Chippenham (17/04/2008) - 7000/11673 Written by Lee on Saturday, 19th April 2008 [quote author=Nick link=topic=7000.msg11672#msg11672 date=1208636590] Line side fire? ??? [/quote] See link below. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=2485.msg18639#msg18639 Re: Evening Northbound TransWilts Train Terminates At Chippenham (17/04/2008) - 7000/11695 Written by Graz on Sunday, 20th April 2008 Here's what I saw at Westbury:  According to Doris, it was cancelled "Due to the fire"! There were quite a small crowd of people on platform 3 surrounding the dispatch staff. By the time I left at 19:38- my train being the only one on time it seemed- the train was still reported as cancelled, and the other delays kept growing... 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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