A Cheering Community Rail Story From Wiltshire
This article from the Wiltshire Times is entitled Station Scheme Gets Under Way.
The article talks about Melksham station and how the Transwilts Partnership and Great Western Railway are improving the station.
- A new community cafe, 53 car parking spaces and a bus interchange will be provided.
- GWR will lease land from Wiltshire Council and lay out and manage 75 parking spaces.
- Transwilts appear to be funding the community cafe.
- Car park improvements will be paid for by new parking charges.
- Passenger numbers have grown from 10,000 in 2013 to more than 75,000 last year.
- GWR have doubled the number of carriages on the route.
The last two points, must mean that everybody involved must be doing something right.
I’ll finish with this quote from Dan Okey of GWR.
We believe very strongly in community rail and in this route and we want to see it continue to grow.
This partnership between GWR and the local comminity rail partnership, could and should be copied elsewhere.
The Anonymous Widower 