| Re: 18 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by Mark A at 10:41, 27th September 2023 |      |
A campaign that certainly got the word out and not just in Melksham.
Mark
| 18 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by grahame at 16:13, 20th September 2023 | |
http://grahamellis.uk/blog994.html
18 years ago today (Wednesday 20th September 2005) I hosted the inaugural meeting of "Save the Train"
"Graham - this is Melksham - it would be a miracle to get 20 people to a meeting". So said the doubters.
Going forward at that point, the train service was 2 trains each way per day (06:36 and 19:18 southbound, 07:21 and 19:47 northbound) and there were 3,000 passenger journeys per day - that's an average of one passenger arriving and one passenger leaving on each train. The platform was long enough for a single carriage, there was just a bus shelter on it, and the bunny rabbits hopped around if you ventured down there. Few people in Melksham even knew we had a railway station!
"Graham - this is Melksham - it would be a miracle to get 20 people to a meeting". So said the doubters.
Going forward at that point, the train service was 2 trains each way per day (06:36 and 19:18 southbound, 07:21 and 19:47 northbound) and there were 3,000 passenger journeys per day - that's an average of one passenger arriving and one passenger leaving on each train. The platform was long enough for a single carriage, there was just a bus shelter on it, and the bunny rabbits hopped around if you ventured down there. Few people in Melksham even knew we had a railway station!
