TweetThe Campaign Against New Beeching Report is headed by a fellow rail campaigner Lee Fletcher. He has been and continues to be one of the more active campaigners whose inspired project to propose an alternative plan for a railway in south west England, Gateway to the Future, I commented upon recently. This campaign, which is [...]
Archive | June, 2007
Service Cancelled: due to Glastonbury Festival?
Tweet Last week and today, First Great Western organised some 60 extra services on its network to ferry festival-goers to and from Castle Cary for Glastonbury 2007. The question is: did other regular services suffer?
Congestion is not the only issue
TweetThis Guardian article about the ‘here-to-stay’ above-inflation rail fare increases raises some important issues about how the Government intend to tackle the capacity problems on the rail network in Britain. Statements about the way forward for the railways will come in the High Level Output Statement (HLOS). The two major projects for consideration are a [...]
Response from Department for Transport
TweetOn 12 June, I received the following response from Judith Shepherd of the DfT to my letter concerning the lack of services on the TransWilts (Salisbury – Westbury – Chippenham – Swindon) line. I was reliably informed that a large amount of the text of the letter was copied from DfT responses sent to concerned [...]
Gateway to the Future
TweetSome wonderful people from the Save the Train campaign have come up with a feasible, achievable and brilliant solution to the current train transport problems in Wiltshire and the Greater Bristol Area. They call it Gateway to the Future and it speaks for itself.
Access to Archives?
TweetWiltshire County Council and Swindon Borough Council are currently in the middle of moving various heritage services from around the county (mainly Trowbridge) topurpose-built facilities in Chippenham which will open some time after October 2007 as Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. These services include the record office (archives), archaeology, museums service conservation (moved from Salisbury) [...]
A thought for today
TweetIn Mumbai, India, young Parsi boys attend the Dadar Athornan Madressa, a school where they receive secular education in addition to instruction in the arts of being a priest. In this gallery of images of contemporary Parsis, there is one of three of the boys in front of the school by a blackboard with a [...]
