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Description of line

Swindon - Chippenham - Melksham - Trowbridge - Westbury.



2 trains per day each way on Monday to Saturday, 2 northbound trains only on Sunday. The service was reduced from 5 round trips a day in December 2006.



The remaining trains leave Swindon at 06:19 and 18:42, which is inconvenient for most potential travellers. As a result, a service that was used by 100,000 people per year has dropped back (my estimate) to just 8% of that - 8,000 journeys - projected for 2007.



The current service is TOTALLY UNSUITED to the traffic that's available and offered and there are strong moves for a return to an appropriate service from December 2007 ... 2008 ... 2009 ... 2010 ... 2011 ... 2012 ... Manyana ...



See here

Recent discussions:
Link to ... IETs at Melksham
Link to ... A two carriage train running back and forth - Swedish differences
Link to ... From Melksham to Tallinn (added - and back round The Baltic) by train
Link to ... TransWilts Anniversary - formed 14 years ago - 26th March 2010
Link to ... TransWilts (including Melksham) - train service update for the rest of 2024
Link to ... TransWilts CIC appoints new chair
Link to ... that nice man Tony from Bradford -on-Avon
Link to ... Rail replacement train
Link to ... Triangle flow chart - Salisbury to Swindon via Westbury
Link to .. Passenger Journeys / flows - West Wiltshire and stations to Swindon
Link to .. Melksham to Southampton - why we didn't take the train from Melksham
Link to .. 2024 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury
Link to .. Into the next decade - train service - what might the next step look like?
Link to .. [otd] 4th December 1898 - Theft from goods in transit in Melksham
Link to .. What's on the West Wiltshire Agenda?
Link to .. Lacock Halt - opened 16th October 1905
Link to .. Single line performance - a week's record and thinking on what it tells us
Link to .. HS2 - effect of phase 2 cancellation on a typical town in the West Country
Link to .. Kicking up a fuss - an example to follow?
Link to .. Services through Melksham - a timeline


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