Three months in pictures - 158 of them taken from thousands I have taken to show just how varied the Community Rail Officer role is. It's my mandate to get help the trains and other public tranport serve the communities along the TransWits line and wider through Wiltshire - largely by co-ordinaing resources and informing. And it's my target to do it in such as way that a first use is a positive experience, and service users will keep coming back and keep telling friends and colleagues.
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The common theme to the pictures I've chosen to highlight isn't trains. It's people! Only two of the seven pictures I've selected include a railway line (and in only one case is there a train there). The ultimate objective is to get people to use the trains (and at times to get the trains for people to use!) but it's all about people. The people featured are for the most part passengers and volunteers happily featured, but let us not forget the army of operational staff on the railway too. They do a superb job, but there's a convention not to photograph / add them in without their explicit permission - just as you'll find few or no pictures of the council officers, Department for Transport staff and railway mangement who do so much to help us and are just as vital in the success of the line.
All pictures are dated --- all have a story. And all are mixed up to give a flavour if you just sample!
(written 2016-08-27)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Z406 - TransWilts Community Rail Partnership [3881] Wiltshire Public Transport User Group co-ordination - (2012-10-05)
[3986] Rail services in Wiltshire - up in the air? We need to say what is best required. - (2013-01-20)
[4142] Passenger survey at Chippenham - report and pictures - (2013-07-24)
[4148] Special General Meeting, Adoption of Constitution for TransWilts Community Rail Partnership - (2013-08-01)
[4160] Bank Holiday Monday - pictures of a great train trip to Weymouth - (2013-08-27)
[4163] TransWilts Community Rail Partnership - formally constituted - (2013-09-01)
[4191] Getting people to and from Melksham Station - not 20 but 700 times a day - (2013-10-12)
[4194] TransWilts Link - meeting notes from 19th October - (2013-10-20)
[4196] Official - Trowbridge and Melksham to London train improvements - (2013-10-22)
[4198] New trains for 2014 - Swindon to Westbury. Meetings Melksham, Swindon, Trowbridge, Chippenham and Westbury - (2013-10-24)
[4218] A THANK YOU to those who have brought the new train service to fruition - (2013-12-06)
[4219] TransWilts train services - up from 2 to 8 per day - (2013-12-09)
[4225] Melksham Resident? Commuter? Save yourself 2000 pounds and 100 hours in 2014, and have a better journey! - (2013-12-20)
[4229] Thin end of the wedge - plan to be thicker in 2014 - (2013-12-26)
[4243] Taking Greyhounds and Lurchers to London for the day - (2014-02-23)
[4284] Talk and walk to promote train service - Melksham Carnival - (2014-07-11)
[4287] TransWilts CRP - walking in Melksham Carnival - (2014-07-13)
[4288] Some questions on how our Community Rail Partnership works - (2014-07-13)
[4291] Train Online article - ACoRP / TransWilts introduction - (2014-07-25)
[4309] Even in the dark of night, the train comes bearing passengers - (2014-09-28)
[4313] Moving community rail support from amateur to professional - (2014-11-16)
[4328] Folk music train, Westbury to Swindon round trip, 14th December 2014 - (2014-11-24)
[4343] Politics and the railway the connects Wiltshire - (2014-12-06)
[4351] A little thing can make a big difference - (2014-12-13)
[4353] Celebration pictures, year 1 - (2014-12-15)
[4362] What a difference a year makes - (2014-12-23)
[4371] Why are people using the TransWilts? - (2014-12-29)
[4397] TransWilts / Press and Publicity report for AGM / 30th January 2015 - (2015-01-17)
[4424] Looking Forward - TransWilts Community Rail Partnership and TransWilts CIC - (2015-02-12)
[4435] Images of our rail promotion campaign - (2015-02-21)
[4463] Rail Conference, Nottingham - (2015-03-16)
[4467] Neighbourhood Plan - travel and transport thoughts - (2015-03-29)
[4494] Monday to Friday / TransWilts train times from 18 May to 11th December 2015 - (2015-05-17)
[4497] Around the world from Melksham - (2015-05-25)
[4500] The TransWilts Community Intergrated Transport Corridor - (2015-05-29)
[4510] Learning from the others - Community Rail - (2015-07-12)
[4512] The Weymouth Wizard - Saturdays in August from Wiltshire - (2015-07-31)
[4513] Yesterday, Weymouth - (2015-08-02)
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
[4601] Management view - TransWilts and transport at the end of 2015 - (2015-12-25)
[4612] TransWilts - robust these days - no longer the first service to be cancelled - (2016-01-03)
[4638] TransWilts Community Interest Company AGM - 13 Feb 2016, Swindon - (2016-02-05)
[4647] On the problems of a printed train timetable - (2016-02-15)
[4688] Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 5 (services and prices) - (2016-05-30)
[4695] Melksham Rail Development Group becoming Melksham Rail Users Group - (2016-06-21)
[4706] Melksham trial train service is to be made permanent - (2016-10-02)
[4726] TransWilts Partner Update for Melksham Area Board - (2016-11-07)
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House - (2017-05-27)
Some other Articles
Scons - a build system in Python - building hello worldSome gems from an introduction to PythonCourse dates - from October 2016 to December 2017Three months in community rail picturesWhat do people use the bus for in Wiltshire - survey interim results.Up and down TransWilts - some pictures off the rails!Pretty at the station tooObfurscated code - it might work, but is it maintainable?Melksham Rail Development Group - a celebration of 20 years