Save the Melksham Train
* Pledge campaign completed with over 680 signatories, reprenting around 150,000 Wiltshire journeys per annum

* Late May meeting held with key players
* June elections to Wiltshire Council then new Cabinet member for transport appointed.
* Further meetings in July to progress the case

Train service for 2009 remains dire - southbound from Swindon at 06:15 and 18:45, northbound from Westbury at 07:02 and 19:35. Please pledge your support if you would like to see an increase to six trains a day - arriving Swindon at 07:48 08:53 11:50 14:50 17:36 and 20:19, returning at 06:18 09:02 12:02 15:02 17:55 and 18:45. This campaign will run until the end of May 2009.

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Petition for appropriate train services
Petition text:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide a reliable train service with adequate capacity at times that travellers wish to make journeys from Swindon to Westbury, Bristol to Severn Beach, Portsmouth and Weymouth to Cardiff, Taunton to Cheltenham, Swindon to Cheltenham. This includes all intermediate stations and journeys in both directions.
Signatories when petition closed were as follows:

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Note - we believe that all names listed in the upper sections (MPs, MEPs, Councillors, etc) are correct and genuine signatures by the person of that name in that position. Please notify us of any errors, or of signatures by other people in these groups that appear in the main list. There are a handful of entries that we beleive are NOT genuine, and we have left those entries just in the main list.


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