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tomorrow - Walk to Pilning
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10/05/25 - Model Railway Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM

On this day
2nd May (1999)

Last special train to Weymouth Quay (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

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09.57 Exeter St Davids to Reading	DevonTrains2008	7	5631	October 05, 2011, 22:21:02 by thetrout
Brent Knoll Station	smokey	12	9529	August 27, 2011, 08:01:05 by grahame
BTP appeal for information after incident at St Austell station	JayMac	1	3378	August 26, 2011, 11:52:00 by ChrisB
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Disruption 15 Apr 11 - Tiverton Parkway	bobm	9	7895	April 16, 2011, 18:34:18 by super tm
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Southern route for FGW hst's « 1 2 3 »	dayranger57	34	19017	March 22, 2011, 23:31:22 by The Grecian
Exeter St. Davids Improved Lighting	Bob_Blakey	3	4017	March 20, 2011, 09:09:25 by The SprinterMeister
Signals on the west of england line	6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01	0	3673	March 06, 2011, 19:12:05 by 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01