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Would you like 6 trains a day each way, or just 2, next year? Draft timetables which will be implemented with sufficient public and political support have been prepared bt First Great Western, validated by Network Rail, and run through the County Council for whom this is a strategic route in their current local transport plan - see box above.

See here for discussion forum on all of FGW area. See also Blog and Forum for latest details ... of service development for the whole "TransWilts" and for improvements at Melksham. Also Forum archive ... Blog archive

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Melksham is about 100 miles to the West of London,served by the Swindon to Westbury / Salisbury / Southampton train service currently operated by Wessex Trains.

At Swindon, all trains from Melksham connect into fast trains to London (Paddington); at Westbury, six routes come together and you can change into trains to Exeter, Plymouth and Penzance, to Newbury, Reading and London, to Bath and Bristol, to Salisbury, Southampton and Portsmouth, and to Yeovil and Weymouth.

The station in Melksham is located across the river from the town centre, with an underpass for cyclists and walkers provided to help make a safe crossing of the busy A350 trunk road.

Images produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Images reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.
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