Public Transport in Melksham 20 years ago

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Public transport timetables
for Melksham - September 2000

Wiltshire County Council (in the days it was Wiltshire County Council) used to publish public transport timetables that included all operators with services in a particular area. The leaflet for the Melksham area - leaflet C32 from 4th September 2000 - is reproduced below. In those days there were severn road operators and one rail operator. That didn't change very much up until last month (March 2020) - at the start of that nonth there were still five road operators, but that has dropped now to just two. Services that were infreqent tend to have been lost, but services that had a reasonable daytime frequency have done rather better and grew until the current - and we hope - temporary pandemic restrictions where for our own good we are not travelling.

Looking at the 2000 timetable, as it is today, Melksham was at the crossover point of the Bath to Devizes services (then known as X71 to X73) and the Chippenham to Trowbridge and Frome service (234 and X234). Service 237 ran hourly from Trowbridge via Holt to Melksham, with alternate journeys continuing to Corsham via Lacock and to Calne as the 238. There was a town bus - route 34, and also routes 37, 72, 79, X76, X85, 86, X86 and 235 which ran to lesser frequencies. The National Express coach - daily to London, route 402 - ran recognisably in a similar way that it did until last month. Perhaps the biggest change we've seen is in Melksham's train service - on the back cover of the timetable, comprising just one train each way per day, Monday to Friday only.








































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Trains

Current Departures

Timetables to December 2024:
Local (Swindon to Westbury)
to Reading and London
via Salisbury to Southampton

Journey Planners, fares and booking:
GWR for UK
Interrail (Europe itinaries)
Rail Europe (Individual journeys)

Buses

Timetables as at September 2024:
14, 15 - Melksham Town Bus
x34 to Chippenham, Trowbridge, Frome
271,2,3 to Bath and to Devizes
69 to Corsham, Bradford-on-Avon
x76 to Calne, Marlborough, and to RUH
SB2 to Seend
401 to Heathrow and London

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Taxis

Listed in a random order:
• Carols Cabs - 07894 873129
• Forest Taxis - 01225 705453
• Index - 01225 700800
• Nigels Taxi - 07976 165910
• Paul's Taxi - 07986 517319
• AAP - 01225 706133
• Adam's Cab - 07526 291 539

Cycling and walking

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