• Derailment at Westbury causes delays

  By wp_alistair at 10:33 on 06/12/11

  

  Rail services between Bristol and Salisbury, on the Warminster line, are being severely affected by a derailment at Westbury train station in the early hours of this morning. At approximately 2.00am this morning (Tuesday 6 December) an out-of-service passenger train derailed, while it was travelling very slowly at about 5mph. Nobody was on the train apart from the driver, who was uninjured. Disruption will probably continue into...

• Vintage Bus Day in Warminster

  By wp_alistair at 20:06 on 09/10/11

  

  If you were in Warminster today you might have felt a little bit like Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap, thrown back in time to the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s or 1980s....as a selection of classic vintage buses rolled  through Warminster and surrounding villages. Hundreds of local residents and travel enthusiasts gathered in the Central Car Park in Warminster, which was the starting point for over 20 vintages buses and coaches,...

• Warminster Railway Ticket Office faces axe?

  By wp_alistair at 22:19 on 06/09/11

  

  One in four railway ticket offices in England and Wales could potentially close, with the loss of over 1,000 jobs, under proposals in a Government-Commissioned report. Some 675 ticket offices could be at risk, including Warminster. The McNulty report was drafted to advise the government on how to make the railways run more efficiently. Closing ticket offices at little-used stations was suggested as part of a package of measures aimed...

• National Liftshare Week.

  By Victoriaco at 23:15 on 04/10/10

  

  Did you know its National Liftshare Week and there's a website which will tell you how many people are regularly making the same journey as you - http://www.liftshare.com/v3/pages/liftshare_week.asp?skin=277. Has anybody tried to find a liftshare for a journey to work? Would you be happy joining up to have a lift with a stranger? While it makes sense to save putting another car on the road,  how about the invasion of private...

• Police Appeal for Warminster Rail Death information.

  By Victoriaco at 00:10 on 30/09/10

  

  British Transport Police are appealing for help from a man who may have witnessed a death on the Warminster to Westbury railway line on Friday evening. Police are appealing for the man, or anyone who knows his identity, to contact BTP on 0800 40 50 40, quoting incident number 664 of 24/09/2010.   http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/8418880.Police_appeal_over_railway_line_death_at_Warminster/

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