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Title: The last train ever to use the station? Post by: grahame on July 08, 2019, 06:43:40 From the Western Daily Press, describing Saturday 18 April 1966
"It was a sentimental moment for 64 year old railwayman Mr Harry Dyer and his wife Cecilia as they waited for a train on Melksham Station on Saturday night. For it was the last train ever to use the station which is closing down" .... (http://www.wellho.net/pix/lastpassengers.jpg) Discussions ((here)) (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=635553196921483&set=gm.2487277851334765&type=3&theater&ifg=1) on "Historic Melksham" Facebook group. If you see how Melksham Station has chanced in the 53 years since that article ... just think how things could equally have been different for Calne and Devizes and .... others had they had the luck to have been on a line that was still in situ as the tide turned to rail again. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |