I'm under the impression that if you have the photocard, you can also buy certain period seasons from on train staff when using an unmanned station.
That's good to know.
Tomorrow morning, I was planning to start from Chippenham on the 06:25, as the 05:56 from Melksham ran for the last time on 8th December 2006, and the 07:20 (now the first northbound train of the day) is too late for me. Pity really - I remember being on that train with 40 or 50 others a few months before it was withdrawn.
What grahame fails to mention is that this was the day that he dragged various local dignitaries and the local media out of bed for one of his infamous Save The Train publicity stunts.
On any normal day you would have struggled to spot more than a handful of passengers on that particular train, if that.
While there is probably no unbiased case for improved Melksham train services that either national or local taxpayers would inevitably have to shoulder the burden of, there certainly is not a case for putting a Melksham train on at that time of the morning.
