Save the Melksham Train
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)."

See who has signed up to pledge support, more details of the validated service that has just had the plug pulled and some personal comment
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How did the area around Melsham station use to be?

These historic pictures have been supplied for our use here by the Melksham Historic Society and Tony Seager, to whom we give our grateful thanks. Please bear in mind that they retain copyright. Further old pictures of the station are on another page.

A train of feathers stands to the South of the Bath Road bridge in 1928


"The Flying Scotsman" came through Melksham on a special train a couple of years before the station closed for the first time


A further view of "The Flying Scotsman" - in this cas approaching Melksham and giving a godd view of the good yard to the North of the station.


The goods yard a number of years earlier. Melksham was a thriving freight centre for the railway, with a large staff and a large signal box.


The frontage of the station, after closure in 1966 but before demolition.


Passenger train at Melksham Station, circa 1920.

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