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Duncan Hames introduces leading MPs to a Melksham success story: Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems

Duncan, Nick and Vince visit Knorr-Bremse in Melksham

On Thursday 8th October Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg MP, and Deputy Leader, Vince Cable MP, visited Chippenham and Melksham to give their support to prospective local MP, Duncan Hames, and to discuss the Liberal Democrats’ plan to get the economy back on its feet.

In the morning, Duncan took Nick and Vince to visit a local employer, Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems, in Melksham.

Duncan said: “I was very pleased that Nick and Vince were able to come to Melksham to visit Knorr-Bremse. I wanted to take them there because I believe it is the kind of company we need to encourage if we are to find a way out of this recession. The quality of its products means that it has full order books and has been hiring while many companies have been cutting jobs. At I time when we are all very worried about possible job layoffs, Knorr-Bremse is a local success story that gives hope for Melksham and goes to show that there is a real future for manufacturing jobs in our area.”

Duncan added: “It’s a shameful fact that despite having a flagship rail manufacturing company, Melksham still lacks a real rail service of its own. I’m calling on Network Rail to use their current service review to do the right thing and bring back Melksham’s trains.”

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One Response to “Duncan Hames introduces leading MPs to a Melksham success story: Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems”

  1. Andrew Rolph Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm

    I believe the Swiss have a strategic rail plan for their country which contains ideas such as this: ” … all towns of ‘n’000 people will be served by rail. Plans will be made for towns approaching ‘n’000 people in the next ‘x’ years to be served by rail …”
    That’s what I call ’strategic’! In Great Britain, re-organising the tracks at Reading and mixing airport and commuter passengers at Gatwick [again!] seems to be as strategic as we get.

    Melksham is obviously, at 25,000*, quite big enough to justify a higher service level. It’s an operational and legal convenience that it has only two trains a day. It’s not the biggest place in Britain without a proper passenger train service, but it’s likely the one where changes could be made most easily.

    [*Horley in Surrey is about the same size, and has 3tph on weekdays, because it’s lucky enough to be on the main Brighton line.]

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