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Privatised railways from a Swiss perspective - 7735/12455 Written by Industry Insider on Sunday, 25th May 2008 The Swiss have had loads of private railway companies operating over quite large areas for many years. Anyone with Sky might like to tune in to the Travel Channel 2 channel (263), on Sundays or Tuesdays when the whole day is devoted to Swiss railway journeys. Some of the scenery on display is worth tuning in for alone, but it is also interesting to compare the railway operations with our own. Almost every route is electrified, low level european style platforms and a much more relaxed attitute to safety - no sign of any fences in the rural areas. I bet they don't have to cancel a train if the Selective Door Operation system fails! Re: Privatised railways from a Swiss perspective - 7735/12461 Written by admin (Graham Ellis) on Tuesday, 27th May 2008 Yes, on the safety side I do feel that UK rail - which is much safer than roads anyway - goes to an extreme that's perhaps more emotionally than financially or practically based. But that one's a very tough discussion as one injury is one too many, and anyone who argues against a safety rule or feature, no matter how expensive, is labelled as putting a callous price on life when it can be the opposite. 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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