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Melksham railway station is a railway station serving the town of Melksham in Wiltshire, England. It is on the branch line from Chippenham to Trowbridge that was originally part of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, absorbed in 1850 by the Great Western Railway. The station opened with the original section of the line between ''Thingley Junction'' and Westbury, on 5 September 1848. British Railways closed the station in 1966 but reopened it in 1985. The station had a siding which gave access to the former Wiltshire United Dairies/United Dairies creamery, last owned by Co-operative Wholesale Society Dairies, allowing access for milk trains. After its closure the dairy was converted into an industrial estate. ==Service== , Melksham station was served by two trains a day between Swindon and Westbury, operated by Great Western Railway, compared with five each way per day before the December 2006 timetable change. The Save The Melksham Train group campaign for improvements to the services on the line. As noted above there were formerly two departures each way on weekdays and Saturdays from the station, but the Saturday service pattern was quite different from that during the week. There was also a single train each way on Sundays.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TransWiltsRail: Melksham )〕 From the start of the December 2013 winter timetable, Melksham has a significantly improved service.〔(First Great Western Timetable Central 3 - Cardiff & Bristol to the South Coast )''First Great Western''; Retrieved 2013-12-09〕 Trains now run approximately every two hours each way Mon-Sat (with peak period extras - eight departures in total) and five trains each way on Sundays. Two weekday southbound services run through to . Trains longer than one carriage cannot open all doors as the platform cannot accommodate them.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Western Route Utilisation Study: Platform Lengths )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melksham railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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