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Title: Across England and Wales - the Railfuture list of supported projects Post by: grahame on April 21, 2020, 07:38:27 At https://www.railfuture.org.uk/display2308 ... detailed table, with status, campaign team notes, target opening date, and a few words on each. List below is titles of projects in regions effecting us (Outer South East, South West, Wales)
Plymouth-Penzance Bodmin Parkway- Bodmin-Wadebridge Newquay-St Austell Newquay-Truro- Falmouth Exeter-Okehampton Bere Alston-Tavistock Tavistock-Okehampton Newton Abbot- Paignton Devon Metro Taunton-Exeter Minehead-Watchet- Taunton Taunton-Castle Cary Taunton-Yeovil- Bournemouth Stonehouse Parkway MetroWest 'X' Scheme Waterside Line South Hants Rapid Transit Swanage-Wareham Ringwood- Brockenhurst Welborne Hundred of Hoo Oxford-Cowley Wantage & Grove Parkway High Speed to Hastings Lewes-Uckfield Medway-Maidstone- Gatwick Ludgershall-Andover Newport IoW Transport for Wales Cardiff St Mellons Parkway Magor North Swansea Parkway Heart of Wales to Cardiff Carmarthen- Aberystwyth Caernarfon-Bangor Title: Re: Across England and Wales - the Railfuture list of supported projects Post by: smokey on April 22, 2020, 20:36:42 Whilst Railfuture is a well meaning lot, they as a National Society are really missing a POWERFUL trick.
Each Area of Railfuture is campaigning to their local MP's for improvements, example the South West Branch would be supporting the Bere Alston-Tavistock-Okehampton- Exeter reopening. But which knocks down a door fastest, a 1 lb hammer or a 14 lb hammer? If Railfuture worked as one body and decided which, (by holding a national vote) was the most important line to reopen then badgering ALL the MPs about say reopening Colne to Skipton, it would have far greater chance of being Authorised. I'd be very happy to badger my south West MP with Emails supporting this North West reopening. And when the Government approves this reopening then as a society they move on to project number 2, that HAS to be in another Railfuture area, that could be reopening Leicester to Burton-on-Trent. I'd then badger my MP about the Leicester Burton line. The BIGGER the hammer the faster the work is done. :D Title: Re: Across England and Wales - the Railfuture list of supported projects Post by: bobm on April 22, 2020, 20:42:20 Totally agree, which is one of the reasons they have lost me as a member.
Title: Re: Across England and Wales - the Railfuture list of supported projects Post by: johnneyw on April 22, 2020, 21:12:08 The BIGGER the hammer the faster the work is done. :D The sort of sentence you don't want to hear at the dentist!😧 Title: Re: Across England and Wales - the Railfuture list of supported projects Post by: grahame on April 23, 2020, 07:17:04 If Railfuture worked as one body and decided which, (by holding a national vote) was the most important line to reopen then badgering ALL the MPs about say reopening Colne to Skipton, it would have far greater chance of being Authorised. Railfuture does produce and publish a key campaign list - it's at https://www.railfuture.org.uk/Campaigns . Policy such as this is formulated by inputs from the 14 regions to the special interest groups and correlated overseen by the policy director. Overall policy is confirmed (by vote) at the Railfuture AGM - a national meeting open for all 2,000 members to attend if they wish. Quote Key campaigns * Fares must be clearly explained and value for money and tickets must offer a choice of flexibility in time and routes. * Northern powerhouse. Linking the great Northern cities of Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds and Hull by a fast, high capacity rail network will create a single strategic economic entity to realise the economic potential of the region. * Oxford - Cambridge. Reopening the railway throughout between Oxford and Cambridge is an economic development project, not just a rail development. * Thameslink 2. A new route between Stratford and East Croydon via Canary Wharf will relieve congestion at London Bridge and on the Brighton Main Line, and connect northeast and southeast London with the growing economic centre of Docklands. * Uckfield - Lewes. Reinstating this line will promote economic growth in East Sussex and Brighton, and create a second route between London and the South Coast. * Wisbech. Wisbech is one of the largest towns in the UK without a railway station; reopening this freight line will provide access to employment in the growth area of Cambridge. * Missing links. Railfuture is campaigning for new rail lines to be opened, and some closed lines to be reopened, to increase capacity and resilience in the strategic network by creating alternative routes between major centres, to provide additional metro services for our growing cities, and to connect isolated towns. * New Stations. As new communities and business locations are created, so new and reopened stations are needed to serve them. * Go and compare. Railfuture searches for examples of best practice worldwide which can be applied in Britain. I could write you a long (even for me) piece about the system for selecting and promoting key campaigns and other campaigns supported. Some elements are good (and many of them are hidden), others are well intended but uncoupled and could do with significant rethinks for the modern era, and some are plain poor. A national poll of individual members would tend to prioritise popular schemes irrespective of their practicality, and would tend to prioritise large schemes with large price tags over more local schemes with little (ha, ha) price tags. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |