Old Pictures of Melksham Station

STOP PRESS - we have heard from First Great Western in the last few days, as follows:

"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)."

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Melksham station in times gone by

These pictures are all of Melksham station, starting with the most recent. Other old pictures of the station are on another page.

After nearly 20 years of closure, Melksham Station was re-opened in 1985

Melksham Station was closed in 1966 and the buildingd demolished a few years later. The track, once the main line to Weymouth, was singled. In this picture, you see the station with the old up platform out of use and the down platform adandoned.

As late as the early 1960s, Melksham station appeared to be thriving. This picture is dated circa 1964 - that's just two years before closure to passenger traffic.

Melksham Station, circa 1940

Melksham Station, circa 1905

Melksham Station; this picture is marked 1847, which would date it back to the original opening. Personally, I doubt that date although the picture is clearly an early one.

Many thanks to the Melksham Historic Society and Tony Seager for supplying these pictures, and for their permission to use them on this site.

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