Food for thought!
We need capacity now! Jury is out of what sort, but BRTA wants a nationwide plan and funding for a programme of region by region local, conventional rail solutions, reopenings and select new builds.
Terminal branches, through routes and duplicate routes should be a top priority for modal shift, land use stewardship and cutting emissions, not £27 billion new roads. Please write to your MP and demand action: https://members.parliament.uk/
Rebuild Cheltenham-Stratford upon Avon, more capacity to/from South Coast west of Brighton? Rebuild Shoreham-Horsham-Guildford and harmogenise https://heathrowrail.com/ with the direct arm from Reading and link via Crossrail to Old Oak Common (bays and a through tunnel to link with the Chiltern Main Line and Dudding Hill Lines) for M25 more arcs and outer orbital rail options for passenger primarily and some freight.
Not all freight is containers either, we call on all decision makers to give a nationwide incentive for post, parcels and pallets by rail with incentives for couriers and parcels companies to switch to rail for lion's share. A send and collect point from every station for example.
Likewise rails east of Bedford via St John's to Cambridge/wider East Anglia would add to the scope of what rail can do. That is why we want reassurance Cllr Tom Wootton Mayor of Bedford Borough and Richard Fuller MP support the route we have suggested, are singing from the same hymn sheet in this respect and work it up, advocate it together and make our route to ECML/Tempsford THE ROUTE and challenge government "what are you waiting for?" in unison. Nothing short of that progressively will do frankly, it is a golden opportunity but there must be unity and dumping the Northern Route on the back of sound research, feasibility, engineering, overcoming challenges and making the case robustly from local grassroots upwards and outwards.
BRTA supports these things and welcomes others to join us, donate to us (we are voluntary) and help through your channels, to advocate a better deal for rail generally. https://brtarail.com/become-a-
Our report on a new-build Woodhead rail link is making progress. There's a plethora of local reinstatements which would make a critical difference in the north as elsewhere, we appeal for unity and support and realisation accessibility to rail is key to make modal choices and modal shifts from road to rail more viable.
I suspect that is what opponents and enemies/vested interests against rail fear most. But land use, national cohesion and cutting emissions in a large way, making for better public health needs the re-railing programmes: https://www.gov.
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