| Re: 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by grahame at 15:13, 21st September 2025 |     |
Can't recall if that's the meeting I attended, but it was certainly hosted in your training room.
That meeting was in the "old" training centre at 404, The Spa, SN12 6QL ... the year before we bought 48 Spa Road - the Old Manor Guest House at 48, Spa Road, SN17 7NY. Further writeup at https://grahamellis.uk/blog1725.html
There were - dozens - at the old place that evening. A prophet of doom told us not to bother (see https://grahamellis.uk/writings/hm447.html ) but I'm so glad we did. Partly because of what we've achieved, but also because of the pleasure in so doing.
| Re: 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by Mark A at 11:52, 20th September 2025 | |
Can't recall if that's the meeting I attended, but it was certainly hosted in your training room. Only a frivolous user of the trains via Melksham, I'd occasionally head out after work to get a quick 'Rail travel fix', a circular trip via Chippenham and Trowbridge, with enough time at Melksham for a quick explore, make use of the fish and chip shop - with time to reflect on other companiable evening recreational rail trips that hinged on a foody destination.
Mark
| Re: 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by grahame at 08:46, 20th September 2025 | |
Now 20 years ago ... interesting to look back at what I wrote at the time
https://grahamellis.uk/writings/hm447.html
https://grahamellis.uk/writings/hm448.html
| Re: 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by Mark A at 10:41, 27th September 2023 | |
A campaign that certainly got the word out and not just in Melksham.
Mark
| 20 years ago today - 20th September 2005 - Inaugural Save the Train meeting Posted by grahame at 16:13, 20th September 2023 | |
https://grahamellis.uk/blog994.html
18 years ago today (Wednesday 20th September 2005) I hosted the inaugural meeting of "Save the Train"
"Graham - this is Melksham - it would be a miracle to get 20 people to a meeting". So said the doubters.
Going forward at that point, the train service was 2 trains each way per day (06:36 and 19:18 southbound, 07:21 and 19:47 northbound) and there were 3,000 passenger journeys per day - that's an average of one passenger arriving and one passenger leaving on each train. The platform was long enough for a single carriage, there was just a bus shelter on it, and the bunny rabbits hopped around if you ventured down there. Few people in Melksham even knew we had a railway station!
"Graham - this is Melksham - it would be a miracle to get 20 people to a meeting". So said the doubters.
Going forward at that point, the train service was 2 trains each way per day (06:36 and 19:18 southbound, 07:21 and 19:47 northbound) and there were 3,000 passenger journeys per day - that's an average of one passenger arriving and one passenger leaving on each train. The platform was long enough for a single carriage, there was just a bus shelter on it, and the bunny rabbits hopped around if you ventured down there. Few people in Melksham even knew we had a railway station!
