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02/06/24 - Summer Timetable starts
17/08/24 - Bus to Imber
27/09/25 - 200 years of passenger trains

On this day
18th Apr (1966)

Melksham Station closed (link)

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Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

April 18, 2024, 09:13:07

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could GWR offer cheap travel 28 Jan/5th weekends	infoman	8	739	January 21, 2023, 14:56:09 by ChrisB
On reliability - how should it be defined and increased?	grahame	2	749	February 09, 2023, 22:27:54 by Hafren
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Cross your legs and pray.....	TaplowGreen	4	804	December 16, 2022, 07:03:27 by CyclingSid
is this all that train enthusiasts have to complain about?	infoman	1	806	May 17, 2023, 07:39:15 by Marlburian
GWR May-December Timetables	Timmer	0	807	April 13, 2022, 18:54:55 by Timmer
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Armed Forces Day - free travel 2018	plymothian	0	813	June 01, 2018, 17:31:47 by plymothian
Flooding at South Brent (near Totnes)	GBM	8	819	January 04, 2024, 07:35:43 by a-driver
Advertising early purchase tickets - why LNER but not GWR?	grahame	0	831	April 09, 2021, 05:27:03 by grahame