The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

grahame

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The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« on: September 03, 2020, 09:21:46 »

From https://www.facebook.com/MelkshamRUG/posts/642022026442581 ...

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What a difference a hundred years makes. Melksham Rail User Group newsletter for September includes all Melksham bus and train timetables, and links to Melksham taxi numbers and current train running. Pictures - circa 1920, and August 2020. Most trains now running - another returned last Monday, and weekend service step up on and from 19th. There is good space for passengers to social distance on all trains, and masks must be worn. It's still safer than driving according to the RSSB^▸ (see newsletter).

Posted at around 07:15 this morning and Facebook tells me it has already reached 2,942 people of whom 209 have "engaged". The old ones - such as "then and now" - are always a great way to reach people, and I'm getting comments back from people who used the services in the 1950s and 1960s as well as reaching the wider population to remind them that there's a station in Melksham these days too. As even, the visits from Facebook will be short and sharp and the post will disappear into the dusty archives, hardly if ever to be seen again, by this time tomorrow.

Question - do any other members have old "then" pictures they can line up with recent ones of their local station and post here?


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PhilWakely

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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2020, 12:38:50 »

Not quite 100 years - but 60 years (ish) at Pinhoe (top left is 1964, bottom left 1960) It is currently not possible to get similar pictures including a train as two trains currently occupy the platforms at the same time, with the Down (nearside) arriving first. Before anybody asks.... Yes, the little lad admiring the unrebuilt Battle of Britain is me!

Spot the differences.............

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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2020, 12:54:55 »

No pictures Sad


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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2020, 13:47:54 »

Quote from: rogerw on September 03, 2020, 12:54:55

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Fixed.

How do you manage to remove a footbridge yet keep both platforms open?
-- signed interested of Pilning


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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2020, 14:26:27 »

Access would be via the pedestrian lane over the crossing


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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2020, 21:27:51 »

And 'proof' that the old ones are best ...

... three days, and nearly 10,000 people reached, with over 10% of them - that's over 1000 - not just scrolling past.


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Re: The old ones are always the best - then and now pictures

« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2020, 22:46:13 »

And Hinton Admiral.


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