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Author: Campaign for Borders Rail

CBR responds to Network Rail market study

CBR has responded to Network Rail’s draft Long Distance Market Study for consultation (see link below). Key points raised by CBR were: 1. Is NR’s analysis model perhaps overly biased towards flows where reasonable long-distance rail services already exist, unlike the situation in the Central Borders? 2. The study should treat the Scottish Borders as […]

The Scotsman reviews rail re-opening progress

Following yesterday’s launch of substantive engineering works, The Scotsman today reviews the progress of the rail re-opening project, quoting CBR Chair Simon Walton and rail consultant/author (and CBR member) David Spaven. In contrast to the many stories about the ‘troubled’ Borders Railway in past years, the tone of coverage is now noticeably more positive! http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/350m-borders-railway-work-begins-1-2901446

The worst of Beeching

The Scotsman reports a new analysis of Beeching’s cuts which ranks the Waverley Route as the worst line closure in Britain. http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/450-miles-of-scots-railway-dodged-beeching-axe-1-2848941 Produced by rail consultant, author and CBR member David Spaven – with help from two rail industry colleagues – the table (see link below) ranks fifteen different routes by length of line closed […]

A quick response to the doom-mongers!

Following a cobbled-together front page story in the 2nd March Herald, which tried to cast doubts on the business case for the Borders Railway, readers of the paper – including David Steel, and Paul Tetlaw from Transform Scotland – have today set the record straight with a fine array of ripostes. See: http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/letters/borders-cannot-afford-not-to-have-a-rail-link-with-capital.20393211