I'm sorry, FGW^▸ (First Great Western), but most of the time it's a lot cheaper for me to drive to Westbury and travel from there than use my 'local' station in Chippenham.  If I'm going to Bath the bus goes direct from nearly outside my house so there's no point taking one to Chippenham only to travel back through Corsham again to get to Bath on the railway.

If FGW were to re-open Corsham Station though, I'd use the train a lot more often!   It's a station truly local to me I simply can't use because FGW / Network Rail / whoever won't re-open it!   

That's pretty much how I answered the survey anyway! 

Bath isn't a huge town (let alone city).  Bath already has park and ride schemes so motorists don't need to drive in to the city.  I really can't see that a monorail would help all that much.

I wonder if it depends on the time of day?  Claire and I spent less than a tenner between us to get to Bath & back from Corsham on Saturday.  I think it was about ^4.10 each if I recall.

We took the bus from Corsham to Bath & back at the weekend.  The thought that I have to pay a pound for diesel every ten miles I drive now helped make my mind up to take the bus rather than drive.

I assure you, it's no joke! 

Corsham = none 

Mike Greedy of Passenger Focus gave a witty and detailed presentation showing how the decision-making process works and giving some insights in to where we need to focus our efforts.

The Corsham Station Campaign website is now officially launched at http://corsham-station-campaign.org.uk 

Okay, done that.     I hope you get a positive response.

Thank you for reminding me - don't know much about engines myself but I remember our Tech Drawing teacher at school (in the early '80s) enthusing about the design of the deltic engine.

It prompted me to do some googling - the animation at http://www.wis.co.uk/justin/deltic-engine.html is worth a look to see how all those pistons work together.  Having never heard a deltic myself, I can't say whether the soundtrack does it justice or not.

The Pound Art Centre, Pound Pill, Corsham is the place to be on Friday, 23rd May 2008 at 7.30 for 8.00 pm for all those people interested in the reopening of Corsham Station.

Edit by Conner: Now linked to Calendar.

Thanks Lee, FWIW^▸ (for what it's worth), I registered my support anyway. 

Thanks Lee,

I've just been looking up CanBer on the web.  Is it's home still on the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) action network?  I ask because it seems the BBC will be shutting the Action Network down shortly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A33049172

I was hoping someone here might know how the campaign is going.  Last I heard was from Anne Lock a few weeks ago saying there was a committee meeting coming up at which time they would discuss holding a public meeting and possibly getting a web-site together too.  I'm not on the committee so am not 'in the loop' so to speak.  I'll see if I still have Anne's number and will give her a call if no-one else posts here in the next day or two.

Many thanks for fixing the web page - if I can point people in the direction of the discussion here, hopefully it will help to increase the numbers of people talking about it and help to keep everyone informed as and when the campaign can get a meeting together.

It seems the proposal to spend the money associated with Katherine Park on something other than the Station is firmly shelved for now.

North Wilts District Council have been spending what money they have left on various projects rather than hand over any spare cash to the new Unitary Authority for Wiltshire which is due to come in to existence soon.  They've allocated some money for research in to rail travel for Corsham people, but unfortunately this will concentrate on options for improving travel from Corsham to Chippenham station rather than actually reopening the station at Corsham.  It will be interesting to see if the research manages to come up with anything at all useful.

Grahame, that front page seems to be largely broken now, and the link seems to point to an inaccessible forum topic.  Would you mind fixing it a little if you have a minute please, and if there's a particular forum I should be posting in for Corsham related topics let me know?

thanks,

Jim

Web Admin for Corsham Diary

I spoke with Anne Lock about the station campaign a few weeks ago but have heard nothing back since.  Is there any plan to hold a public meeting soon?  The impression I get is that there are quite a few people in the town willing to get involved in the campaign if only it had more of a public face.

If you're able to do a press release about the petition and any other news about the campaign, please can you send it to me for publication on Corsham Diary?