Description of lineSwindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury.
Service offered
2 trains per day each way on Monday to Saturday, 2 northbound trains only on Sunday. The service was reduced from 5 round trips a day in December 2006.
Peak flows
The remaining trains leave Swindon at 06:19 and 18:42, which is inconvenient for most potential travellers. As a result, a service that was used by 100,000 people per year has dropped back (my estimate) to just 8% of that - 8,000 journeys - projected for 2007.
Known issues
The current service is TOTALLY UNSUITED to the traffic that's available and offered and there are strong moves for a return to an appropriate service from December 2007 ... 2008 ... 2009 ... 2010 ... 2011 ... 2012 ... Manyana ...
Forum
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Recent discussions:
Link to ... First bus changes from 28th July along TransWilts corridor
Link to ... Melksham Railway Development Group - AGM and future meetings
Link to ... Saturday 08/06/13 Melksham to Corsham travel options
Link to ... A350 improvements
Link to ... Report from the Southern extension
Link to ... Making plans for next week
Link to ... Why does it have to be so complicated?
Link to ... Watching the trains go by - Salisbury
Link to ... Return Melksham to London ... current fares
Link to .. Melksham Connections
Link to .. A cautionary tale - do not rely on a connection to the last train of the day
Link to .. Knorr-Bremse lands contracts for its Driver Advisory System
Link to .. Swindon - Westbury services during Reading blockade
Link to .. Train service Devizes
Link to .. "We need to act now" - Transport Minister
Link to .. Unexpected reports of heavy snow and impassable road conditions
Link to .. Let's end the year by cancelling the entire evening peak service
Link to .. Wiltshire trains on boxing day
Link to .. Change of time for Saturday AM northbound TransWilts service
Link to .. TransWilts featured in Rail magazine
Also ... blogs and other active groups:
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