Gillingham’s Annual Carnival, part of the Wessex Grand Prix Carnival Circuit. Takes place every year during the second week of October. Link: www.gillinghamcarnival.org.uk The West Country Carnival Circuits are an annual celebration featuring a parade of illuminated floats (also referred to as carts), in the English West Country. The celebration dates back to the Gunpowder Plot […]
Friends of Gillingham Station (FOGS) receive a cheque from the Waitrose Green token Scheme for the sum of £233.00. This money will go towards station enhancements to improve the welcome to the Town. Future plans include improved signage, walks from the station map, planting, heritage information board and improved waiting room with book swap facility. […]
The improvements will be introduced from 11 December and are in response to feedback and ideas from local passengers, stakeholders and communities to enhance the options available to passengers. New timetable due to be introduced from 11 December 2016 New services to the Heart of Wessex line, including Frome and Castle Cary Includes a new Friday […]
Rail Minister Celebrates Success at Community Rail Awards! Friends of Gillingham Station hosted a successful POP-UP Birthday event at Gillingham Station to mark the 90th birthday of HM The Queen and also the 160th year of the founding of the Salisbury to Yeovil Railway Line. The Mayor of Gillingham opened the event which attracted hundreds […]
Templecombe station, on the London Waterloo-Exeter line, embodies what the can be achieved through a successful partnership between the railway and the local community. There has been a determined attitude, combined with a creative desire, to improve the station. The village’s desire has been to hold onto history while at the same time recognising the […]
[arve url=”https://youtu.be/NPAVkivDnAA” maxwidth=”500″] Messums Wiltshire announces, the opening on 24 & 25 September of a new commercial and educative arts space for the South West of England located in historic landmark building. Messums Wiltshire is delighted to announce the opening on the 24 and 25 September 2016, of a new commercial centre for art […]
Development of the website has been progressing smoothly. You may have noticed the Twitter sidebar appear on the left. This has now been successfully linked to the Blackmore Vale CRP twitter account. Additionally, further development of the Stations page has been made, including the creation of pages for each of the six stations, as well as links to […]
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