The Transwilts railway line runs from Swindon to Salisbury - linking the six largest urban areas in Wiltshire. But there's a problem - there are no trains from the 06:15 from Swindon until the 18:45 from Swindon - a wholly inappropriate service for one of the top 50 travel and commute corridors in the country.
Ask the authorities about it - and you'll get lots of words of sympathy, lots of agreement that the current service is not fit for any purpose except to meet the government specification that's laid down for the line ... and excuses and buck passing!
On this page, you'll find a series of picture that we have used on the top of the
First Great Western Coffee Shop Forum - a site which id provided by users (and wannabe users) of First Great Western services ... and I've labeled them up so that you know which was taken where.
You can support the call for an appropriate service - please visit
this page to do so. And you'll find links from there to other resources. There is also more background on
the Save The Train website
Link to ...
Salisbury -
Warminster -
Dilton Marsh -
Westbury -
Trowbridge -
Melksham -
Chippenham -
Swindon
Swindon - population 185000
Salisbury - population 45000
Chippenham - population 28000
Trowbridge - population 28000
Melksham - population 23000
Warminster - population 17000
Westbury - population 11000
Dilton Marsh - catchment area 6000
Melksham Station - service gap, 07:17 to 19:11
Near Staverton
Trowbridge
Chippenham
Chippenham
Salisbury
Westbury
near Melksham
near Broughton Gifford
Westbury
See also
Railwaytotems