Category: Transport: Rail

A Talk On Transport Issues In North And West Wiltshire

Monday 18th November 2024

An invite from the West Wiltshire Rail Users Group:

North and West Wiltshire are set to grow under the local plan with an 80% uplift on it from the new government. That will affect our infrastructure, and in particular our travel and transport network where some roads and indeed railways are close to saturation and just a little bit more on the current system would result in delays and gridlock that would be bad for our economy as well as for our personal bloodpressures!

On Wednesday 27th November at 19:30 (arrive from 19:00) at the Bethesda Church Hall, Newtown, Trowbridge, BA14 0AA, Jenny Raggett – a director of Transport for New Homes, will talk through the transport issues in North and West Wiltshire, where we are becoming a “connected city”, and mass transit into Bath and Bristol which, from our sector of the county, many of the jobs are based.

This is a meeting of the West Wiltshire Rail User Group; guests very welcome indeed – we are funded by member subscriptions so we ask guests for £2 on the door. I am writing round – rather wider that usual – and I invite you or your colleagues if you wish to come.

The group website can be found at https://wwrug.org.uk/flyer.html for further information, or if you’re a Facebook user you can find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwrug

Please also feel free to share this invite.

C64 Wylye, Temporary Road Closure Due To Level Crossing Works

Thursday 26th January 2023

SECTION 14(1) OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

Notice is hereby given that the Wiltshire Council intends to make an Order to close temporarily to all traffic:

C64 (Part), Wylye; for a distance of approximately 30m either side of level crossing to enable Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd to carry out level crossing scheme and associated works. Alternative route via C64 (unaffected length) – C10 – A303 – C276 – C277 – B3089 – C64 (unaffected length) and vice versa.
The closure and diversion route will be clearly indicated by traffic signs.

This Order will come into operation on 24 February 2023 and the closure will be required as follows;
24 February 2023 between the hours of 21:00 and 06:00 until 27 February 2023; 03 March 2023 between the hours of 21:00 and 06:00 until 06 March 2023.

It is anticipated that the works will take the stated duration to complete depending upon weather conditions. Access will be maintained for residents and businesses where possible, although delays are likely due to the nature of the works. The Order will have a maximum duration of 18 months.

For further information please contact Centurion Traffic Management on 0113 2775360.
Wiltshire Council

Nothing Has Changed With GWR

Monday 15th November 2021

Late Western Snailway @Late_W_ Snailway has tweeted:

I had to use @GWRHelp today for the first time in nearly two years. Nothing has changed. The ticket machine on Platform 2 at Warminster station was bust, on-train announcements couldn’t be heard and hardly any coaches on said trains.

and

My return train was (guess what) delayed and then cancelled. I do not miss @GWRHelp AT ALL and praise be I am only using them for a week. I have more pleasure with a prostate exam.

Mrs. Trott Scared The Life Out Of A Young Signalman

Thursday 26th March 2020

On Twitter (X), 26th March 2020, replying to @GordonDudman , London Almoner wrote:

“Now Gordon you know Upton Lovell is another story. Do you think the railway people of today would understand the likes of Mr & Mrs Trott. She scared the life out of me as a young relief signalman.”

Black Five Steam Locomotive Approaching Norton Wood Plantation Bridge, Norton Bavant

Thursday 20th June 2019

In the pouring rain ~

Hauled by a Black Five steam locomotive, 44871, ten carriages with a diesel loco at the rear, the Steam Dreams tour London-Bristol on its return journey (via Salisbury) through the Warminster area, Thursday 20th June 2019.

Filmed by Danny Howell as it approached Norton Wood Plantation Bridge, Norton Bavant, at 7.00 p.m.

https://fb.watch/vUGEgVAuhq

Black Fives were known as “do-anything and go-anywhere” locomotives. 18 Black Fives survived into preservation with several examples still working on the mainline railway. Members of the class that have feature on previous tours with The Steam Dreams Rail Co. include 45212, 44871, 45407, 45305 & 44932. The first class 5 locomotive was built for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway in 1934 to the design of Sir William Stanier. The new locomotives when built left the railway works in the standard mixed traffic black livery which soon earned them the nickname “Black Fives” for which they are still affectionately referred to today. The locomotives were capable of handling both express passenger and freight trains and were spread far and wide across the UK railway system. By the time the last Black Five was built in 1951, the class numbered 842 locomotives; one of the most numerous classes of British steam locomotives ever built.

For details of 44871 see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMS_Stanier_Class_5_4-6-0_4871

An Inspector Barked At Warminster

Monday 4th February 2019

Bien Soeur @BienSoeur has tweeted:

Gosh, how rude was the female ticket inspector at Warminster station on the 7:23 to Great Malvern! There was still a queue in the ticket office and the machine was out of order and when I asked if I could get buy a ticket on the train she barked “I suppose you’ll have to then!”