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

On this day
1st May (1964)

Helicopter service from Penzance to Scilly Isles starts (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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Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
Mass Disruption on SWR services	Surrey 455	0	958	November 30, 2020, 20:52:45 by Surrey 455
Expansion of SWR services to Swindon and Okehampton? « 1 2 »	Southernman	15	4138	November 28, 2020, 13:52:33 by grahame
An update from SWR - notes from 5.11.2020	grahame	1	1444	November 06, 2020, 12:28:10 by grahame
Message from Mark Hopwood at SWR to key stakeholders, 21.9.20, ERMA and beyond	grahame	0	2699	September 21, 2020, 15:07:24 by grahame
Is Saturday the new peak?	Surrey 455	2	2000	September 20, 2020, 07:41:46 by grahame
27.8.2020 - landslip near Micheldever	grahame	4	2103	August 30, 2020, 22:50:07 by MVR S&T
SWR advice on travelling by train - 16th July 2020	grahame	0	4076	July 17, 2020, 12:35:59 by grahame
SWR services stepping up from 1st June2020 « 1 2 »	grahame	21	5674	July 06, 2020, 12:51:09 by PhilWakely
West of England Line CMSP study	RichardB	9	3654	July 05, 2020, 13:26:48 by IndustryInsider
Some people will pinch anything. Even if it is screwed down.	JayMac	5	1872	June 27, 2020, 20:52:47 by Surrey 455
9 day line closure between Yeovil Junction & Gillingham	Surrey 455	2	3246	June 18, 2020, 15:51:03 by bradshaw
South Western Railway - Stakeholder Conference	grahame	7	2858	May 22, 2020, 10:34:16 by Fourbee
Solar powered railway infrastructure - a first?	grahame	8	4160	May 05, 2020, 20:28:54 by stuving
Salisbury to Wimborne, Poole and Bournemouth	grahame	3	2884	April 21, 2020, 16:58:15 by MVR S&T
Moving Poole Station	grahame	9	2476	April 01, 2020, 11:50:09 by smokey
South Western Railways - amended service	grahame	2	1425	March 20, 2020, 19:48:19 by bradshaw
Welcome Mark Hopwood, SWR Interim Managing Director « 1 2 »	JayMac	22	5916	March 16, 2020, 15:55:52 by TonyK
Cancellations west of Salisbury	bradshaw	0	1622	March 10, 2020, 18:20:22 by bradshaw
A trip on The Mule - 7th March 2020	grahame	13	4231	March 08, 2020, 20:15:26 by Umberleigh
Romsey	Trowres	2	1521	February 27, 2020, 22:13:38 by Trowres