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« on: March 02, 2021, 16:33:03 »

EDIT by grahame ...  this came up as "oh, help, where does this go" in our moderators's area ... I am moving it here as perhaps the most appropriate place. 



I'm posting this here because:

1) I can't believe no-one has posted about this before, but I can't find it;
2) I'm not sure which board it belongs to!

This is the plan to turn the former Royal Ordnance Factory at Bridgwater into a business campus: https://thisisgravity.co.uk/

What might interest us is the apparent intention, which NR» (Network Rail - home page) have confirmed to be feasible, to reopen the rail connection to both freight and passengers. The Campus is it seems included in the Bristol Freeport bid...

Given this link, I'm tempted to put it under 'Bristol (WECA» (West of England Combined Authority - about)) Commuters'.
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2021, 17:10:39 »

It's on our base map of proposals - see ((here)) - I hope the long URL in there work - but you are right that there is no thread on it, and it simply refers to the organisation's site.

It really should have its own thread ...why not move this (even this discussion of ours) to either WECA» (West of England Combined Authority - about) or "Campaigns" and add a summary?

When looking to provide every reasonable assistance to the "reopen" chap late last year, the difference between
* the Coffee Shop which looks primarily to current and soon services and passenger travel this year / next year
* campaign sites and idea development resources
was highlighted.  Our data isn't very well correlated nor all-covering on futures beyond what' expected in the next couple of years, but then that isn't our area / aim anyway!

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« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2021, 10:46:23 »

Note that the Bristol Freeport bid appears to have failed - it was not on Sunak's list.
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