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Title: 18 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Post by: grahame on September 20, 2023, 16:13:29 http://grahamellis.uk/blog994.html
Quote 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! Title: Re: 18 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Post by: Mark A on September 27, 2023, 10:41:51 A campaign that certainly got the word out and not just in Melksham.
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