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« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2009, 20:55:37 »
Please excuse me if I'm being incredibly naive here, but weren't those all closed some time after the Beeching cuts of 1963?  So Melksham may indeed have been the first of the actual 'Beeching Cuts' closures to be reversed?
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« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2009, 21:03:46 »
I think we're splitting hairs. Melksham was closed in April 66,  Dronfield in Jan 67. So I would hardly say that one was part of the Beeching cuts and the other wasn't.

Anyway, Templecombe (closed March 66, reopened October 83) is another example of a reopening before Melksham.
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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2009, 21:10:14 »
Fair enough, John - like Phil, I seem to have been taken in by the press 'spin' of the time!  Grin
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2009, 22:22:11 »
They both closed. The both re-opened. Full-stop. Wink
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« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2009, 00:59:24 »
If its any help, Dyce, Melksham, Dronfield, Wetheral and Templecombe were all listed for closure in the 1963 Beeching Report (link below.)
http://www.shropshiretransport.info/beeching/report1/15%20Appendix%202.pdf

Honeybourne wasnt listed, and this could well be because the line from Cheltenham-Stratford wasnt listed either (link below.)
http://www.shropshiretransport.info/beeching/report1/maps/Map09-1.htm

Unfortunately though, the Cheltenham-Stratford line wasnt featured as part of the 1967 British Railways Network For Development detailed in the document below, which paved the way for the post-Beeching closures.
http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/BRB_NetworkForDevelopment1967.pdf

The last Leamington Spa-Gloucester train ran in 1968, and through passenger trains ceased using the Stratford-Honeybourne section in 1969. The line remained open for diversionary/freight/Cheltenham race trains until a derailment at Winchcombe spelt the end in 1976. Proposals for today's preserved Cheltenham-Toddington (GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)) railway to link up at Honeybourne once again are mentioned in several posts elsewhere on the forum.
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