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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, 10:21:35

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Britannia	Clan Line	1	856	September 12, 2022, 18:30:21 by REVUpminster
11th June 2022: Melksham to Kingswear by steam anybody?	PhilWakely	0	866	June 02, 2022, 07:28:26 by PhilWakely
FHP Audio Visual presents to the West Wilts Rail User Group	grahame	0	878	September 13, 2017, 07:48:11 by grahame
last heritage coal mine supplier to close in November 2023	infoman	0	885	August 22, 2023, 06:51:49 by infoman
Anyoe fancy a remote home by the railway	grahame	2	893	August 07, 2022, 21:34:30 by paul7575
Wolsztyn Steam Railway live cam	Bmblbzzz	0	917	February 11, 2021, 14:44:31 by Bmblbzzz
10 years of the Two Tunnels cycleway	grahame	4	920	April 07, 2024, 08:01:30 by CyclingSid
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(lots of !) Steam train	Clan Line	3	924	December 22, 2022, 09:36:59 by REVUpminster
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Stanier Black Five, 44871 to Sherborne and Yeovil Junction, 6th December 2022	JayMac	4	945	December 06, 2022, 18:36:53 by grahame
Lynton Lynmouth looking for new drivers	infoman	2	989	January 23, 2023, 22:48:39 by TonyK
Bluebell Line Extension	johnneyw	2	992	July 07, 2022, 12:32:45 by Electric train
Shortage of steam (gala) locomotives	grahame	0	1008	September 26, 2022, 16:06:30 by grahame
Bahamas	Clan Line	0	1012	August 12, 2023, 20:57:21 by Clan Line
Helston Railway hit by vandals	old original	0	1020	March 25, 2021, 21:44:18 by old original
Steam tRAIN excursion	Clan Line	2	1029	July 03, 2022, 14:25:22 by Clan Line
Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board	grahame	0	1035	November 09, 2018, 19:34:12 by grahame