Representatives from local authorities and businesses in Devon and Cornwall are due to give evidence to the Commons Transport committee on Tuesday 25 February as part of the Inquiry into TRANSPORT’S WINTER RESILIENCE: RAIL FLOODING. They must insist on: 1. Urgent reopening and long term protection of the Dawlish part of the line, both from…
Attached is a joint press release signed by 20 rail passenger and freight companies and associations across Europe on the risk to future private investment in the railways. e140214 joint press release.2docx Thanks to massive lobbying by the state owned railways and their association, the Community of European Railways, there is a real danger that the…
The Government has withdrawn their application to the European Commission for permission to reduce the number of liferafts to be carried on certain coastal and estuarial passenger ferries. See Lords Question 15 January. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldhansrd/text/140115-0001.htm#14011578000366. It appears that the UK tried to get the exemption for most ferries (EC classes B, C and D) with Class…
Lords Bradshaw, Teverson and Berkeley, who together have a strong interest in railways and the South Wests’ economy today wrote to Transport minister Baroness Kramer urging her to instruct Network rail to undertake a major study with Government and business and local authorities to investigate alternative inland route(s) for the main and only railway line…
The Single Market in railways is an important part of why it is so essential for the UK to remain a full member of the European Union. It is not only that we have a good railway system in the UK which comes near the top of the European Commission’s regular survey of passenger opinion,…
