Train services running to and from these stations have been suspended. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 03/02/26.

Makes me laugh the train passes the station so why can't it stop .If the signal is at caution then what's the problem because it's highly possible the train will stop just down from halt .Public transport is a joke

A single from Dilton Marsh to Westbury must be the most expensive in terms of time and distance on the entire system. I wonder how many are sold?

What about People TRYING TO GET TO WORK IN Dilton Marsh from Trowbridge or Warminster ??

Part of that is based on usage. One way of monitoring usage is by checking ticket sales. If fewer tickets are sold to and from Dilton, it appears that not many people are using it. If a ticket isn’t bought online prior to boarding and a guard doesn’t sell a ticket, it appears that not many people are using the station.

Train withdrawn for NO real reason. As not as though it takes a long time to stop to let people on/off a train!!

Wife went to catch train this afternoon, cancelled even though nothing on the app saying so. It’s a joke that we have a station on our doorstep yet we can’t use the train as much as we want because of such poor service

If a train stops at a request stop ,why can't it stop at any other times?[Image from here is not available to guests]

Smaller Station issues - Melksham and Dilton Marsh

There are two railway stations in Wiltshire where the limited facilities and infrequent services give lie to the fact that they serve substantial catchments. Those stations are Melksham, where the population of the urban area it serves is 25,000, and Dilton Marsh where the population it serves in 9,000. Both stations have residential expansion planned locally; Wiltshire is one of the fastest growing authority areas in the UK, and sustainable and efficient transport is at the hub of that.

Those stations:
Dilton Marsh: 10119 journeys in 2001/02 rising to 21580 journeys in 2024/25 (2.4 journeys per resident)
Melksham: 3266 journeys in 2001/02 to 60932 journeys in 2024/25 (2.4)

By comparison:
Warminster: 247665 journeys in 2001/02 to 355958 journeys in 2025/25 (14.2)
Bradford-on-Avon: journeys 211968 in 2001/02 to 532220 journeys in 2024/25 (53.2)
Trowbridge: 404998 journeys in 2001/01 to 904342 journeys in 2024/25 (24.4)

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How much traffic is being lost by the poor services at Dilton Marsh and Melksham? Let's take the Warminster figure of 14.2 journeys per resident per annum. We would predict 127800 ticket sales for Dilton Marsh - a rise of 106000, or 592% of current journeys. And we would predict 355000 ticket sales for Melksham, or 583% of current journeys.

Outrageous predictions like these have me questioning my own sanity. However, discussions with retired specialist civil servants I have worked with over the years, my sanity is confirmed. These are the sort of numbers they would expect after a lead in time of 3 to 5 years of a reliable, friendly, appropriate, usable service. Which leads us to ask two quetions - "why has it not been done" and "what is the negative economic effect of the poorly served areas caused by the lack of decent trains".

Alterations to services between Liskeard and Looe
Due to flooding between Liskeard and Looe the line is closed.
Train services running to and from these stations have been suspended. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 02/02/26.

Coates? He could fund restoration of Sapperton Tunnel - its portal is right there. (The canal one, not the railway one!)

One of my favourite flood videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrflH6KvPwo

They missed a trick too - the temporary bridges over the rail tracks in the station hadn't been inserted today & thus the the original walking route under the bridge had to0 remain open. That route through the station needs to open in order to replace the bridge, so they're at least 18 hours behind schedule already.

Don't bank on going anywhere south of Oxford next Monday morning 9th.....

Apparently, it's actually Leamington Spa. I'm not sure I get the reference there.  [Image from here is not available to guests]

Fond memories of those days. Quite early on - but after the line had extended a little - a friend and I got permission from the railway to camp on their land at Dunster and Stogumber as part of a Duke of Edinburgh Award expedition. They left the loos unlocked for us at Dunster, while at Stogumber we had the pleasure of meeting the lovely elderly couple living at the station house, who let us use their loo and water, and plied us with soft fruit from their garden. We also had a ride on the railway's asbestos-riddled and so now defunct DMU.  Must head down there again this year for the celebrations.