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today - Melksham TUG / AGM
tomorrow - West Wiltshire RUG
17/05/25 - Summer Timetable Starts
18/05/25 - Portishead RNLI 10 anniversary

On this day
13th May (1985)

Melksham Station reopened (link)

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Where's Rory?	EBrown	2	1703	May 31, 2012, 17:28:08 by TerminalJunkie
Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? « 1 2 »	grahame	27	11420	May 28, 2012, 15:03:19 by grahame
A picture quiz......... « 1 2 »	Mookiemoo	22	8178	May 27, 2012, 21:30:02 by Chris from Nailsea
Ye cannae break the laws o' physics	TerminalJunkie	9	4576	May 20, 2012, 15:13:54 by inspector_blakey
House's unique viewing platform is a restored railway carriage for bedroom	Chris from Nailsea	1	2676	May 16, 2012, 13:45:27 by argg
Did I Imagine It?	eightf48544	0	1054	May 14, 2012, 22:48:35 by eightf48544
Railway lies and misinformation « 1 2 »	EBrown	15	5504	May 13, 2012, 06:44:59 by grahame
Can you identify these locations? « 1 2 »	grahame	20	9492	May 11, 2012, 05:52:45 by grahame
Unfortunate URL	TerminalJunkie	11	6766	May 05, 2012, 11:17:10 by readytostart
The wellies on the bus...	TerminalJunkie	0	1255	May 04, 2012, 19:28:35 by TerminalJunkie
South West Trains' passenger petitions the Pope.	JayMac	1	1715	May 04, 2012, 12:38:56 by thetrout
A picture quiz from TT :) « 1 2 3 »	thetrout	42	20070	May 02, 2012, 16:54:13 by Southern Stag
On this Day April 20th	thetrout	3	1955	April 21, 2012, 23:51:19 by TonyK
Caption anyone? « 1 2 »	grahame	18	7282	April 21, 2012, 23:48:17 by TonyK
Possibly the most expensive Advance Ticket in the UK?!!	thetrout	1	1418	April 19, 2012, 10:06:52 by eightf48544
How was one's driving?	JayMac	3	1969	April 17, 2012, 21:47:27 by TonyK
Depot movements from reading west to rdg p4 /p6	BerkshireBugsy	0	1127	April 17, 2012, 05:59:31 by BerkshireBugsy
Virgin Trains telling you where to go....	JayMac	2	1435	April 15, 2012, 12:56:12 by readytostart
Where Have I been? « 1 2 »	EBrown	27	7044	April 14, 2012, 21:56:21 by EBrown
A lot of us are rail enthusiasts, but this is going just a little bit too far...	JayMac	6	2842	April 14, 2012, 07:28:22 by 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01

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