Great North Eastern Railways, We hope - a blog by Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor
Time to stop the rail fare rise! #nofarerise
Message from Dennis Fancett, Chair of The South East Northumberland Rail User Group (SENRUG). Sent: 27 August 2019:
Northumberland County Council is now undertaking a public consultation on the Ashington re-opening (which the Council now call The Northumberland Line) at different locations along the route. Details are in the attached link: https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/News/2019/Aug/Public-s-view-sought-on-rail-line-plans.aspx, and I believe the Council are also taking other steps to advise affected residents. It would be great to get along to one of the events and express your strong support for the proposals, both phase 1 and phase 2, and beyond that Seghill, Woodhorn & Newbiggin and the further possibilities SENRUG has articulated.
Please don’t forget our public meeting on Thursday 12th September, 19.30 at Morpeth Town Hall – guest speaker Chris Cunningham from LNER. I look forward to seeing you all there.
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Click here to view South East Northumberland Rail Users Group (SENRUG) newletters.
Railfuture Conference 2019 - click here for details.
Metro frequency 'will not be compromised', Newcastle Chronicle article, 4th February 2019. Opens as a PDF.
£3.5m for next steps of major rail project in south-east Northumberland.
Metro struggling to keep drivers due to attractive salaries at larger rail firms.
2nd January 2019 Joint RMT and Labour Rail Campaign Day demo, protesting the 3.1% fare increases after one of the worst years in Rail History. See our Facebook event page for details.
Intercity East Coast franchise report to be published 12 September 2018.
Alstom makes hydrogen trains pledge
The Great British Train Robbery - a video by Renegade Inc, featuring the director of We Own It, Cat Hobbs, and Nicole Badstuber, a transport policy researcher at University College London (running time 28 minutes).
A 'Thank you' to the British people for privatising our railways - a short TSSA video.
South East Northumberland Rail User Group (SENRUG) are holding a public meeting on Tuesday 17th April 2018, 7.30 pm at Morpeth Town Hall, Market Place, Morpeth, NE61 1LZ. Guest Speaker Graham Jellett, a TWPTUG and SENRUG member, will give an illustrated talk on "New French Light Systems in the 21st Century". Click here for further details.
Email sent to TWPTUG from We Own It (29/12/2017):
This week, we’re excited that the Guardian and the Mirror covered our campaign to bring the East Coast railway line into public ownership!
We also discussed the campaign on Radio 4’s PM programme (listen from 12:52) – although the government and the train companies declined to join us...
If you haven't signed the petition yet - please sign here.
If you have signed the petition, thank you! Please consider making a donation to support the campaign in 2018. Your support will give us the power we need to challenge this ideological government.
We’ll be back in the New Year with the next steps for the campaign.
Thanks for taking action to put passengers and the public before shareholders. See you in 2018!
Cat, Ellen, Biba and the We Own It team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=188H4pLy9H8
Copyright © 2017 We Own It, All rights reserved.
Next year's rail fares rise has been announced. Join the campaign to make rail fares fair!
www.railfuture.org.uk/article1735-Guarding-passengers
Please note our next branch meeting will take place on Thursday 27th April at 7pm, Shakespeare Hall, North Road, Durham City, DH1 4SQ. Guest speaker will be Graham Meiklejohn, Regional Development Manager from Transpennine Express explaining the exciting new plans that TPE have for the region with new trains and new travel opportunities. Click here for map.
• Staff should be trained and competent.
• The implementation should be planned.
• The system should be managed through its whole life, with improvements adopted.
www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-members-vote-for-action-on-arriva-rail-north/
What has rail franchising achieved?
Transport journalist CHRISTIAN WOLMAR continues the Railway Study Association’s theme for the year as he puts forward his view on privatisation (opens as a PDF.)
RAILFUTURES GROUP'S NEWSLETTER
The latest and recent editions of Rail User Express can be found at www.railfuture.org.uk/Rail%20User%20Express
Please note our next branch meeting will take place on Thursday 16th February at 7pm, CastleGate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle, NE1 2JQ. Guests will be Nigel Harris Managing editor of Rail magazine and transport journalist Christian Wolmar.
RAILFUTURES GROUP, NOVEMBER 16 NEWSLETTER EXTRACTS
RAILRail regulator approves new East Coast Mainline services:
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which gave the operations the green light, said they would benefit passengers travelling to Middlesbrough, York, Newcastle, Morpeth, Lincoln, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and Stevenage. (4 May 2016, RMT Press Office)
Cheap train trips from North East to London on way after First Group win service approval
RMT warns of new threat to UK rail jobs and services as Deutsche Bahn opens door to speculators.
Rail User Express Newsletter, March 2016 (opens a PDF)
Protect Northern rail services and Northern jobs!
Come along to our rally on 31 March in Manchester and make your voice heard!
Metro Futures Parliamentary Promotion with TWPTUG Chair, Vicki Gilbert, and NECA South Tyneside Transport Committee members, Cllrs Alan Smith and Gladys Hobson.