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The Link Magazine • November 2004 35
Preparing to transport into the future
Thamesdown Transport marked its centenary to the day at the end of
September by launching a new phase in its history when the Mayor
of Swindon coun Peter Stoddart dug the first sod to level the old
Barnfield road dump site to make way for a £4.6 million bus depot.
On completion in
July 2005 the com- WHO GIVES YOU
pany will move out
of its Corporation SPEEDY MOT TESTING
Street HQ where
electric trams first
provided public 7 DAYS A WEEK WITH
transport in the
town. NO APPOINTMENT
Thamedown
Transport manag-
ing director John .. AND MORE?
Owen said, "Corpo-
ration Street is over
100 years old, built
for trams not mod-
ern buses, and too
small for future
needs.
"Traffic in Swin- TheMayor, right, with John Owen, left, and Thamesdown
don is forecast to
Transport directors and staff, and contractors
grow at nearly dou-
ble the national average and if we The new depot will have space
are to avoid the very damaging fornearlyl40busesandwillhouse
economic and environmental ef- all of the company's servicing,
fects of gridlock in the future, it is maintenance and administration.
vital we continue to improve serv- The Corporation Street site will
ices, thus encouraging more peo- bere-developed as part of the New
ple to use the bus instead of their Swindon Company town centre IWQTEST
car." regeneration.
A new exhibition about the history of Thamesdown Transport has opened at
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in Bath Road, Old Town, full of old
photographs of scenes around the town and interesting information about
public transport. Below, an electric tram passing the Milton Road baths in
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