This is welcome news and Scotland can lead-on in the local rail solution and reopening enterprise! England needs to catch up and Wales needs to think outside the Cardiff bubble, so stereotypical and PC, when the rest of Wales Rails seem relatively neglected?
Any reopening of Dumfries-Stranraer must include:
1. Reopening of the Kirkcudbright branch with shared use of deep sea port (part of which is used by the Royal Navy) - to bring freight into Northern England via contra flow capacity to optimise paths and free up the Southampton-Manchester corridors for more and other freight won to rail/expansion.
2. A west to north curve Stranraer end for direct running to Cairnryan and the Ayrshire Coast.
3. Castle Douglas and Newton Stewart are principal towns which could benefit from the railway rebuild as well as winning people and goods off the busy A75 corridor. There is currently no rail competition.
4. Dumfries end we need north and south curves with the main line for direct running to Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively and south to Carlisle and beyond.
Could someone write to Dumfries and Galloway County Council as an opening starter and get a statement of their view, which can inform our assessment of what more needs doing/lobbying.
The success of Borders shows what may be done and achieved.
If you want more and better, then join BRTA as a member: https://ertarail.co.uk/become-a-member/ and volunteer time and talent to make it so please = the only was to achieve more and better x nationwide. Key qualities are reliability and basic honesty and a willingness to compromise and be part of a team.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/campaign-reinstate-dumfries-stranraer-railway-29636505
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