Really one for our other (save the train) web site ... but the draft timetable for Melksham from December 2006 has been published.

As widely predicted, cut to two trains a day. Sadly, little notice has been taken of the requests for a slightly later arrival in Swindon in the morning of the commuter train (no - it now arrives a quarter of an hour earlier), nor for a slightly earlier departure in the evening (It's over half an hour later). I expect that these changes will drive away much of the existing commuter traffic - I hope that it will find a new traffic to replace the loss.

From a Well House Consultants viewpoint, the 09:12 arrival from London no longer runs - there are early morning trains into Melksham at 06:46 and 07:37 - too early for our customers, and neither has a connection from London because they're that early.

The 17:02 departure is gone too. At the end of a course, the best we'll be able to offer trainees from Melksham is an 18:38 departure that will get them to London at 20:51.

Not necessarily all doom and gloom. I expect we'll be encouraging delegates to travel down on the 17:00 or 17:33 trains from London the night before their course starts, and connect into trains that arrive in Melksham at 18:38 or 19:28. We'll be delighted to pick them up from Melksham Station and take them to Well House Manor where they can get a good nights sleep before starting their course fresh the next morning.

At the end of their course, we'll make arrangements for trainees to get to Westbury or Chippenham stations for a return train, or they'll be welcome to stay a further night and we'll take them for the early train to get them to London for a quarter past 9.
(written 2006-02-14, updated 2006-06-09)

 G101 - Well House Consultants - Getting to and from Melksham
  [40] Take the train to training - (2004-09-06)
  [154] Railway train service, Melksham station - (2004-12-17)
  [187] a popular bus number - (2005-01-23)
  [413] Save the train - (2005-08-13)
  [486] Rail services under threat - Swindon, Melksham ... and Newquay and Bicester too - (2005-11-05)
  [538] A company we can work with - (2005-12-23)
  [715] First way to get rid of customers - (2006-05-09)
  [790] Shadow Transport Minister to visit Melksham - (2006-07-02)
  [796] Busy day in Melksham - (2006-07-08)
  [814] Melksham Railway Calendar 2007 - (2006-07-25)
  [856] The train returns for a few weeks - (2006-09-05)
  [952] Coming from London to Melksham by train for a course - (2006-11-28)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [1428] Travel Across Wiltshire - the game - (2007-11-11)
  [1511] Buses from Well House Manor, Melksham, to Bath - (2008-01-18)
  [1567] Melksham - Swindon. Train v Bus v Car - (2008-03-07)
  [1594] Please support improvements in our train service - (2008-03-28)
  [1723] Bath - Melksham - Devizes. Bus route changes, new timetable - (2008-07-26)
  [1802] Motorcycles welcome at Well House Manor - (2008-09-19)
  [1997] Travelling to a course - station pickups - (2009-01-16)
  [2057] Train and Coach fares from London (and airports) to Melksham - (2009-02-26)
  [2367] Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles - (2009-08-20)
  [2493] Melksham buses to/from Chippenham, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes, London - (2009-11-05)
  [2634] London to and from Melksham by public transport - (2010-02-13)
  [2789] Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London) - (2010-06-02)
  [2791] Bath to Melksham buses - times - (2010-06-03)
  [3276] International travel to the UK - coming to Melksham - (2011-05-03)
  [3751] Public transport for international arrivals into Melksham - (2012-06-04)
  [3752] Melksham Visitors Map - Bus routes and train lines to and from the town - (2012-06-04)
  [4168] Travelling to and from courses - much easier from December 2013 - (2013-09-08)
  [4701] Pretty at the station too - (2016-07-06)

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