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Great Western Coffee Shop > Journey by Journey > London to Swindon and Bristol > Chippenham - facilities, improvements, parking, events and incidents - merged posts
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  • Footbridge opens, CPM: January 22, 2016
  • CHRUG: September 21, 2017
  • CHRUG: October 11, 2018
  • CHRUG: January 10, 2019
  • Chippenham Station Survey: January 28, 2019
  • Chippenham Rail User Group: April 18, 2019
  • Chippenham Rail User Group: July 11, 2019
  • Friends of Chippenham Station: March 11, 2020
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« Reply #120 on: March 07, 2019, 21:41:45 »
Quote from: SandTEngineer on March 07, 2019, 21:28:31
Now then I wasn't aware of this (but might have missed it if we discussed it elsewhere):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/network-rail-vegetation-management-review-valuing-nature-a-railway-for-people-and-wildlife

More of a weekend read than a bedtime one.   Railways and canals are certainly nature corridors as well as train an boat ones ... a subject I've seen before, but nor sure if we have a thread ... best I could come up with was http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=14268.msg157553#msg157553.  But there are community rail groups encouraging bee keeping on (suburban / inner city? ) platforms to use the corridors.
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« Reply #121 on: April 10, 2019, 15:31:35 »
See https://twitter.com/TransWiltsCIC/status/1115974495217623040
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« Reply #122 on: April 11, 2019, 10:56:19 »
Spot of luck you posted that - I've been all set to go to the Jubilee Building tonight!  Grin
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« Reply #123 on: April 20, 2019, 09:03:39 »

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Good news from Chippenham Rail Users Group.

GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) have commissioned preliminary design options for regenerating Chippenham Station.

ChRUG are adopting and will become Friends of the Station, joining Community Rail initiatives round the UK▸ (United Kingdom), affiliating to @ACoRPOffice
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« Reply #124 on: July 05, 2019, 16:11:41 »
Next meeting of Chippenham Rail User Group - 11th July.  See TransWilts Event Calendar.
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« Reply #125 on: July 08, 2019, 15:00:55 »
And from TransWilts Twitter feed this morning.

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Our next CHRUG/FOCS 'Friends of Chippenham Station' will be held at @ChipBoroughLC this Thurs 11th July from 7pm. We very much hope to see you there. 🌞😀👌 #communityrail #FOCS
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« Reply #126 on: March 06, 2020, 10:28:07 »
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« Reply #127 on: March 06, 2020, 10:37:48 »
How about electrifying onwards to Bristol....... Roll Eyes
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« Reply #128 on: March 07, 2020, 06:53:58 »
Quote from: SandTEngineer on March 06, 2020, 10:37:48
How about electrifying onwards to Bristol....... Roll Eyes

As a local input, very welcome I suspect.  As a job for volunteers, I suspect not.
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« Reply #129 on: March 07, 2020, 20:52:50 »
Quote from: grahame on March 07, 2020, 06:53:58
Quote from: SandTEngineer on March 06, 2020, 10:37:48
How about electrifying onwards to Bristol....... Roll Eyes

As a local input, very welcome I suspect.  As a job for volunteers, I suspect not.

I was thinking more along the lines of persuading those who oppose the station footbridge being altered, to allow the electrification to be extend onwards westwards......
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« Reply #130 on: March 08, 2020, 15:04:25 »
I'm not sure that anybody is opposing the alterations to the footbridge (I am on the committe of FOCS so I should know if someone has)

As understand it, it is simply a case of not worth spending the money on it until electrification is authorised through to Bath
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« Reply #131 on: May 05, 2020, 10:49:09 »
A query has arisen elsewhere over when the old down main platform at Chippenham was taken out of use.

I have always been under the impression that it happened at the same time as the Multiple Aspect Signalling programme was being carried out in 1970/71 (this was at the time when the then new Bristol Panel box was opened). Others are of the opinion that the old down main platform was still in use until 1976, and the track to the current down main platform (currently platform 1) had previously beeen lifted.

My theory is not evidenced relying solely on memory, and theirs appear to rely on newspaper articles, neither of which could be said to be 100% reliable!

It did strike me that if the "1976 theory" was correct that would probably have involved changes to signalling, and not just a simple case of slewing the track from one platform to another.

Do any of the learned and wise on the foum know what actually happened?
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« Reply #132 on: May 05, 2020, 12:26:05 »
According to R A Cooke's Track Layout Diagrams Section 21 Bath and Westbury p12 the down line was SLEWED to the island platform on 1st February 1976.

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« Reply #133 on: May 05, 2020, 12:33:52 »
Quote from: Robin Summerhill on May 05, 2020, 10:49:09
I have always been under the impression that it happened at the same time as the Multiple Aspect Signalling programme was being carried out in 1970/71 (this was at the time when the then new Bristol Panel box was opened).
Chippenham would have been resignalled a little earlier than that (as part of the late 1960s Swindon MAS scheme).
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« Reply #134 on: May 05, 2020, 12:35:08 »
Quote from: bradshaw on May 05, 2020, 12:26:05
According to R A Cooke's Track Layout Diagrams Section 21 Bath and Westbury p12 the down line was SLEWED to the island platform on 1st February 1976.

Presumably as part of the HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) introduction allowing for higher linespeeds?  Interesting to see that it doesn't look like there were ever three through platforms as I had always assumed.
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