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The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1474 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 20th September 2006 Have a look at a railway map of Great Britain, and you may feel there's something of a concentration of passenger railway stations and a network of lines in Labour held areas, whereas yellow and blue areas have a thin train service. Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1477 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 20th September 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=504.msg1474#msg1474 date=1158750387]But I'm alarmed by what they've left out; in the South West area, they include Exeter and Bristol only - no mention of some of the opportunities in Cornwall, nor schemes such as Frome to Radstock, nor our own TransWilts. A Transport 2000 member wrote to me that "I tried to interest them in Melksham fo this campaign but to no avail ...". Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1480 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Wednesday, 20th September 2006 Indeed ... but you're looking at rail issues in Lib-Dem and Conservative strongholds there, Lee, so they didn't make the T2000 lists. I wasn't (at this point) attempting to list all possible candidates for support in the South West, but just examples. Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1481 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 20th September 2006 [quote author=Graham Ellis link=topic=504.msg1480#msg1480 date=1158767952]Indeed ... but you're looking at rail issues in Lib-Dem and Conservative strongholds there, Lee, so they didn't make the T2000 lists.[/quote] Much the same as Melksham then....... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/187.stm Although I note that it will be a Conservative / Lib Dem marginal next time round. http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=266.msg705#msg705 Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1507 Written by Lee on Saturday, 23rd September 2006 Here are some more impartial proposals from "Growing the Railways" (links below.) http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=325 http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=327 "East Lancashire to West and North Yorkshire links Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1508 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Saturday, 23rd September 2006 Oh come on, Lee ... some of those are scarcely "marginal"! Tony Cunningham has a majority of over 6,000 in Workington, for example. Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1509 Written by Lee on Saturday, 23rd September 2006 I believe that the MP you refer to lost 6.3% of his vote and had a 4.3% swing against him , Graham. That was in 2005.......... Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1622 Written by Lee on Saturday, 14th October 2006 Unfortunately , there have been no new "Growing The Railways" proposal announcements for over 2 weeks now. However , I am sure that you will be interested in the link below , entitled "Darling pledges support for Transport 2000 Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1628 Written by Lee on Sunday, 15th October 2006 It has been brought to my attention that I have failed to mention "Growing the railways in the East Midlands" which was released just over 2 weeks ago. Many apologies , here is a link. http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=328 "Improving Loughborough station Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1632 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Monday, 16th October 2006 With a political system such as ours, where an MP who serves a particular geographic area is also given responsibility for an aspect of public transport in general, it's all too easy to shout "unfair" when they do something that helps their own area. Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1812 Written by Lee on Thursday, 2nd November 2006 Growing The Railways In Yorkshire and Humber will be launched on Friday 15th December 2006 (link below.) http://www.transport2000.org.uk/news/maintainNewsArticles.asp?NewsArticleID=331 It looks like we will have to wait until then for further details..... Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/1985 Written by Lee on Saturday, 18th November 2006 [quote author=Lee link=topic=504.msg1628#msg1628 date=1160917622]"Major service improvements at Lincoln Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/2008 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 21st November 2006 Good lord! AND a new rail service between Lincoln & Stratford as well ;D (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6167890.stm Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/6829 Written by Lee on Monday, 13th August 2007 Passengers are being asked to be patient as railway tracks through Lincoln are closed until 3 September 2007 as part of the Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/7016 Written by Lee on Wednesday, 22nd August 2007 A number of staff carrying out multi-million pound works at Lincoln railway station have been suspended in a safety investigation (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6956901.stm The workers have been taken off the job by Network Rail until an inquiry is completed. Network Rail did not give full details but said the men had been seen working in an unsafe manner. Re: The future of passenger trains - linking Labour constituencies? - 504/7174 Written by Lee on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 Parts of Lincoln Railway Station could find a new lease of life at the National Railway Museum in York (link below.) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/6964385.stm Network Rail spokesman Ben Herbert said: "We are looking at various options for donating some of the equipment in the box to heritage railways." "We are looking at donating the kit from the Pelham Street signal box to the National Railway Museum in York." "A lot of it is nearly 100 years old and of historical significance and the museum has approached us and we have no use for it." link to index of articles |
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Save the Train was the campaign to bring an approriate train service back to and through Melksham. Most big contributors are still around writing at the Coffee shop forum where new members are very welcome. The train has been saved - sort of - we have stepped back up from an unusable service to a poorish one but it's doing very well. We did that through setting up the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. That fulfilled its early objectives; it has been taken over by local and regional government types who are now doing medium and long term work. The team from this forun can also be found at the Melksham Rail User Group (which was the Melksham Rail Development Group at the time these articles were written and we had no users. We mustn't loose sight, though, that the train service remains poor and needs our community support in marketing and campaigning to keep it going in a positive direction ... and all the more so when we're expecting to find a different normallity once we get out of the Coronavirus Pandemic and head for zero carbon via the climate crisis. Yes, it's saved ... it's now a key community facility ... the need for enhancement and the strong and near-universal local support remain, and the rail industry and goverment remain slow to move and provide the enhancements even to level us up with other towns. Please support the Melksham Rail User Group - now very much in partnership rather than protest with the rail industry and local government, including GWR, TransWilts and unitary and town councils. And please use the trains and buses, and cycle and walk when you can. -- Graham Ellis, (webmaster), February 2021 | |||
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