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