Bad news I'm afraid.

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Dear Graham,

Thank you again for your email regarding rail services in Wiltshire. As promised by
Andrew Haines in his reply I can now update you on progress. 

We had hoped that we could organise an additional service through Wiltshire serving
Melksham in particular. We looked very carefully at all the options, but whilst the
plan received good support, and remains something we want to do, the cost of the new
service is considerable. It will not be covered by the revenue that the service will
generate, and as a commercial organisation we can only therefore proceed if we can
find some joint funding to offset the costs. Despite our efforts this has to not
proved possible to date, and we will not be able to offer any extra services in the
next timetable due out in December.

We will continue to discuss the plans with stakeholders and will keep looking for a
partner to help finance the service, but this will not be possible before the
December 2009 timetable (at the earliest).

Thank you again for your interest and I am sorry that I do not have better news.

Yours sincerely

Leigh Owen
Customer Services Advisor

So the question is now 'What's next?' I, personally have plenty of enthusiasm to keep the campaign going in the hope that we will soon see this happen.

Yes I had e-mail from FGW was well 

No hasty reply from me - but basically "not surprised".   We have around 500 people signed up to the pledge of support; 95% of them in th elocal area, nearly 20% of them elected representatives.  But we have a handful of people (perhaps less than a handful) with various contradictory motive(s) who are NOT onside with all aspects of the proposal, and who can (because of their position) go against the common will in the area and common sense.

Taken from FOSBR Meeting (12/07/2008) notes by I Work For FGW blog author, link below) :
http://www.iworkforfgw.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=118&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a