The train returns for a few weeks

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

From 26th August until yesterday morning, the Melksham train service was again replaced by a bus. The first train back was the 05:52 to Swindon and I found myself on that service ... with 18 people on from Melksham to Chippenham, and no less than 42 from there to Swindon. Yes, I had raised a group but my group save ticket for 8 was actually a minority of people on the train. Here are some pictures:

The view of ...
the Department for Transport

The view of ...
the users of the service

I'm buoyed up, enthusiastic concerning news / figures / infomation received and observed, even if also tinged with a little dark cloud that says "perhaps too late" - the service is due to be cut back to just 2 trains a day, at less than optimum times for any of the traffic flows, in December

The pictures are both views of the same train; what I see is a whole lot of passengers and talking to them I see a whole wide range of journeys, and I hear of problems for them when the train is no longer available. What the DfT see is a very nice, expensive train with no-one around.

You'll find lots more at www.savethetrain.org.uk
(written 2006-09-05)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

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)
  [606] Train service from December - (2006-02-14)
  [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)
  [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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