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Campaign for Borders Rail

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Campaign for Borders Rail’s AGM takes place a week tomorrow (Sat 26 Oct 12.30-4pm). This year we’ll be at Tullie House, Carlisle.An article in today’s Hawick Paper (18 Oct, p7) notes that this year’s AGM “comes amid deep concerns over potential cuts to the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal which is funding the long awaited feasibility study into extending the line from Tweedbank on to Hawick and then to Carlisle”.We have four excellent guest speakers lined up - Julie Minns, MP for Carlisle; Christian Wolmar, railway author, broadcaster and commentator; David Shirres, editor of ‘Rail Engineer’ magazine; and Steve Bradley, leader of ‘Into the West’ rail campaign in Ireland.CBR’s Chair Marion Short is quoted in the article “It should be an interesting day, and we’re very hopeful of a large audience”.We are grateful to our sponsors Johnston’s of Elgin, The Borders Distillery and the Crown & Mitre Hotel.thehawickpaper.co.uk ... See MoreSee Less

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We’re a long-established pressure group promoting the benefits of modern train services for communities across the Borderlands. Our grassroots campaign saw the rail link from Edinburgh to the Scottish Borders reopened. Now we’re lobbying to extend the popular Borders Railway onward to Hawick and Carlisle. Campaign for Borders Rail is an independent community-based association with over 1000 members. Founded in 1999, it has been one of the most successful grassroots rail campaigns in Great Britain, a story of concerned citizens from all walks of life getting together to right the 1969 injustice of complete closure of the 98-mile Waverley Route through the Scottish Borders.