Save the Melksham Train
April and May '08 ...
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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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As well as updates on this site, Graham Ellis also writes about the campaign from time to time on his daily "Horse's Mouth" where the latest article curently is A lack of technical content

This site is dedicated to the support of the train service along the Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury corridor, presently with some onward service to Warminster, Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton. The service is currently threatened with severe curtailment.

Melksham to London by train or coach (london.html)
Newsletter / update - 3rd September 2005 (upd20050903.html)
Bidders for the new franchise (bidders.html)
The history of the train service to Melksham (history.html)
Maps showing Melksham and its rail connections (maps.html)
A little about Melksham (melksham.html)
Around the railway in Melksham - old pictures (oldpics2.html)
Pictures of trains to Melksham (pictures.html)
Save the Melksham train (save.html)
Support us in saving daytime trains to Melksham (support.html)
Save the train - About this site and author (about.html)
What YOU say ... (yousay.html)
Top Banner pictures (aboutpix.html)
Case study - Melksham train usage (casestudy.html)
train or bus - Swindon to Melksham, Trowbridge and Westbury (swindon.html)
Save the train - Melksham - Thank you (thankyou.html)
Current train services (service.html)
Melksham train - tourism (reason11.html)
train or bus - Chippenham to Melksham, Trowbridge and Westbury (chippenham.html)
Petition - to retain the Melksham train service at its current level (petition.html)
New residential Development in Melksham (reason1.html)
Melksham train - environmentally friendly (reason10.html)
Better signposted is improving traffic levels (reason2.html)
Street and station improvements at Melksham (reason3.html)
Major new railway business (reason4.html)
A poor mechanism to choose the service (reason5.html)
Melksham train use is increasing (reason7.html)
Recent extra capacity as Swindon helps reliability. (reason8.html)
Melksham train - no suitable alternative (reason9.html)
Melksham Station Approach (approach.html)
Melksham - main line trains (diverts.html)
Save the Melksham Train - latest news (latest.html)
Melksham Train - meetings, 20th and 27th September 2005 (meeting.html)
Buses replace trains - weekend rail engineering works (bustitution.html)
Trains Swindon - Melksham - Westbury - SLASHED by the DfT and First (index.html)
Sitemap of http://www.savethetrain.org.uk (sitemap.html)
Old Pictures of Melksham Station (oldpics1.html)
Flawed statistics from last year? (reason6.html)
Melksham Station facilities (facilities.html)
Rail Franchise map - 2005 (franchmap.html)
Travel by train from Salisbury to Chippenham and Swindon (salisbury.html)
Travel by train from Southampton to Chippenham and Swindon (southampton.html)
London (Central and Heathrow) to West Wilts and Weymouth (whatif.html)
Station Poster (poster.html)
Minutes - meeting of 20th September 2005 (minutes20050920.html)
Minutes - meeting of 27th September 2005 (minutes20050927.html)
DfT letter - October 2005 (octletter.html)
Update - October 2005 (octupdate.html)
Recent usage Statistics (stats.html)
Masked Ball in aid of Cancer Research, Cerebral Palsy and MacMillan Nurses (maskedball.html)
What YOU say ... (yousay.html.html)
Timetables - trains from to and through Melksham (timetable.html)
Save the train - Melksham (oldindex.html)
YOU can still influence the future (addresses.html)
To Alison Forster, First Great(er) Western (openletter.html)
Letter from Alison Forster of First (fulltext1.html)
Train service from Melksham - how to make it appropriate and profitable (fulltext2.html)
Melksham train - it's NOT too late (o2index.html)
Smoke and mirrors - trains to Melksham (inew.html)
Signatories to petition (signers.html)
Train timekeeping records - Melksham (fulltime.html)
Recent Correspondence (letters.html)
Timetable from December 2006 (newtimes.html)
Answer First request for YOUR input (input.html)
Suggestion to timetable consultation (tt06.html)
Decision Makers (dmaker.html)
Swindon - Melksham - Westbury Pictures (picshow.html)
Railway stations in the Devizes Constituency (devizes.html)
Swindon and Chippenham to Salisbuy and Southanpton (scss.html)
Swindon and Chippenham to Salisbuy and Southanpton (12may.html)
Swindon to Southanpton via Melksham by train (sofar.html)
March 5th, 19:30 - TransWilts Rail Meeting (marmtg.html)
Open Access Proposal (open.html)
Train / bus - London connections from 12.2006 (loncombined.html)
Summary of situation - Westbury - Melksham - Swindon public transport (early.html)
Swindon to Westbury, Salisbury and Southampton - December 2006 and beyond (swptuf.html)
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Well House Consultants Ltd (index.html.curr)
Well House Consultants Ltd (index.html.live)
Well House Consultants Ltd. : home page (index2.html)
Well House Consultants Ltd (index_to1.1.05.html)
Well House Consultants Ltd. : home page (lindex.html)
Trains to Melksham - under threat (todec06index.html)
TransWilts train service - help restore the cuts (help.html)
Bristol Trains - Appropriate service petition (restore.html)
TransWilts Community Rail Partnership (community.html)
Travel Watch South West, Taunton, 3 March 2007 (taunton.html)
Dilton Marsh and Warminster - train service cuts from 12/07? (diltonmarsh.html)
TransWilts update - 28th February 2008 (twsw.html)
First Great Western Coffee Shop (coffeeshop.html)
TransWilts Timetable, 2009 (tt2009.html)
Pledge your Support for an appropriate TransWilts Train service (pledge.html)
A Question for First about their sincerity (whytrust.html)
An appropriate TransWilts Train service (pabout.html)
TransWilts update - 28th February 2008 (boa.html)
TransWilts Timetable (tt.html)
TransWilts Timetable, 2008 (tt2008.html)
TransWilts Timetable (hnewstudy.html)
TransWilts Timetable (tp.html)
TransWilts Timetable (itw.html)
Support for an appropriate TransWilts Train service (sf.html)


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