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« on: October 30, 2019, 18:32:09 »

I've been involved with this campaigning stuff for over a dozen years and thought I had come across most other major national campaigning groups.   The English Regional Transport Association is a new one on me, though - perhaps because their flagship projects are, thus far, not in our region.

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The English Regional Transport Association (ERTA) is a voluntary membership-based, pro-public transport improvement association with its main projects initially in the Bedfordshire and surrounding regional areas but its remit has since increased since several of its projects have a nationwide positive benefit and impact.

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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2019, 19:22:51 »

Up to 2015 it was the Bedfordshire Railway and Transport Association (I don't know for how long).
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2020, 13:22:51 »

Just posted (public post) on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/12135242142/permalink/10157094366187143/

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Some of you may be interested in our Autumn Programme of Zoom Meetings:

ERTA - Autumn 2020 Programme

Northampton Meeting (Zoom) - Friday, 18 September 2pm-4pm

Conference (Zoom) - Saturday, 26 September 2pm-4pm
Speakers include:
Mr Karl Watts CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Rail Operations Group on ‘Rail Operations Group – Revolutionising UK (United Kingdom) Train Operations’. How ROG’s innovative and disruptive approach to rail operations is helping to modernise and shape an alternative approach to network utilisation’.
Mr Trevor Garrod East Suffolk Travellers Association, "Rail Campaigning - What it can achieve."?
Mr Jon Harris, Integrated Transport, Accessibility & Development Manager, London Northwestern Railway on ‘Community Station Travel Planning and creative social engagement’
and Mr Stephen Sleight ‘Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership et al’.
There may be a slight variation between now and then and we will update accordingly.

Great Central Meeting (Zoom) – Friday, 2 October 2pm-4pm

Guildford Meeting (Zoom) – Friday, 16 October 2pm-4pm

Northampton Meeting (Zoom) - Friday, 30 October 2pm-4pm

Great Central Meeting (Zoom) - Friday, 13 November 2pm-4pm

AGM (Annual General Meeting) (Zoom) – Tuesday, 24 November 2pm-4pm

Guildford is on our 'area' ... and in general we can take part much more easily in distant meetings these days, so diary there for anyone interested.    Unclear as to whether membership is required to attend a meeting; note that there is a fee of £12 per annum to become a member. 
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2024, 12:54:08 »

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British Regional Transport Association. This morning I received notification that ERTA has evolved to BRTA, assuming its ancient acronym which stood for Bedfordshire Railway Transport Ass'n

The  British Regional Transport Association (BRTA) is a voluntary pro-public  transport group which started originally in Bedfordshire in 1997 and  has grown in reach and range to apply principles on coherent networks  and foster conditions of access and service to suite a wide and diverse  range of customers. We advocate passenger and freight by rail,  unblocking our roads and improving air quality we all have to breathe!

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We are currently rebranding from English Regional Transport Association to British Regional Transport Association.

We are the British Regional Transport Association

The British Regional Transport Association (BRTA), formerly English Regional Transport Association, is a voluntary membership-based, pro-public transport improvement association. Line re-openings is right up our street in advocacy, campaigning and nurturing congenial agreement and resolution, bringing people together and making common cause.
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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2024, 19:10:42 »

Oh dear.....almost insignificant, now only more so (may have 1 member north of the border)
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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2024, 20:59:17 »

Oh dear.....almost insignificant, now only more so (may have 1 member north of the border)

Now, now ... I sense a view coloured by history and personalities.   
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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2024, 21:40:03 »

Maybe history but I haven't met any personnel from that organisation to my knowledge, so definitely not the latter
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