Support rebuilding a Great Central Corridor - Calvert-Rugby-Narborough

Our proposal is a rebuild of Great Central corridor / re-railing from Calvert - Narborough with a new link into Rugby.

Such a link would enable direct rail access from Southampton/Bristol-Leicester/East Midlands and vice versa in scope for passenger and freight. It avoids Birmingham and London, freeing up capacity/enabling rail greater market share and efficiency. It could also cater for a re-railed corridor and local links including commuting to Aylesbury/OOC and London via Chiltern Lines and put places like Brackley/A43 corridor/Silverstone a 10 minute bus interceptor to rail access as well as Bicester/Oxford-Rugby or Leicester or even Burton and beyond. The new link to Rugby would diverge south of Willoughby and link at a new junction between Northampton Loop and WCML Main Lines. Whether a north of Rugby - new GC alignment near M1 could be done with realignments where blockages exist remains, as per elsewhere matters for professional studies. We want buy-in to the idea and principle and especially local councils/quangos like English Economic Heartlands (EEH) and East Midlands Connect for example, who could in turn take to a next stage and court wider support/GRIP NR for example. We (in normal times) table forums to bring people together and aim to recruit people to in turn get them to campaign for the above objectives. New stations at Barby and Willoughby, Woodford Halse and Brackley desireable as per Calvert. New chord onto the Oxford line (part of east-west rail). We envisage a widening of the corridor between Calvert and Brackley with domestic (our) lines running alongside an HS2 concept and diverging north of Brackley - HS2 to north west, us due north. Lutterworth is where the A14, M1 and M6 converge and so plenty of opportunity by re-railing to engage with those markets for traffic to rail. 

If you can help and include us and help up our game, please do and encourage others. Enquiries welcome. Please contact Mr Simon Barber in the first instance: T. 0208 940 4399, E. simon4barber@gmail.com