Corsham Station closed in the Beeching Era - but it was one closure too far. It nearly re-opened just a few years ago - finance approved, planning approved .... but the rail industry then withdrew the only trains that could have stopped at the new station and the plans went 'on hold'.

With selective door opening now being installed on trains travelling on the line, there's a fresh opportunity for a station at Corsham (the change means that the expense of a full length platform could be spared), and there are many prominent local supporters as Corsham is growing significantly as a work base in its own right, and a commuter town for Chippenham, Swindon, Bath and Bristol




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Recent discussions on campaigns for new services:
Link to ... Midwales railway - Merthyr to Moat Lane - closed from 31st December 1962
Link to ... Somerset Summary - rebuilding for the future
Link to ... Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines
Link to ... Footbridge, Brentwood, 13 year campaign so far
Link to ... Community Rail Awards - nothing worthy to promote here.
Link to ... do you think there is young persons railcard coach
Link to ... Partnership between Network Rail and heritage railway - Severn Valley
Link to ... AI creates an underground system for Reading
Link to ... What might have been - Westbury to Brussels and Swindon to Paris
Link to .. [otd] 17th May 1876 - first through Exeter - Plymouth train via Okehampton
Link to .. petition about visual impaired using train stations
Link to .. Swindon "New Eastern Villages" station?
Link to .. New studies for using the abandoned Croxley Green to Watford Line
Link to .. Chard Parkway?
Link to .. Severnside - an audit of services and aspirations
Link to .. Access to the South Coast from Reading
Link to .. Mass Right to Roam protest planned in West Berkshire
Link to .. Celebrating campaigners - SMK awards
Link to .. Alrewas - campaign for station at National Memorial Arboretum
Link to .. Charfield reopening?

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