Rugby Forum News and Agenda:

 BRTA Rugby Forum – All Welcome

Saturday 25^th January 2025
2pm lunch – 3-5pm business
Venue: Rupert Brooke, 8-10 Castle Street, Rugby, Warwickshire CV21 2TP
Venue Website: www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/the-rupert-brooke-rugby
Venue Phone: 01788-576759
Please let Simon Barber know in advance if you wish to come via email address: simon4barber@gmail.com
Phone (landline): 020-8940-4399
Phone (mobile): 07522-374740
Agenda:
1.    Appointment of someone to chair the meeting and someone to take notes
2.    Apologies for absence
3.    Introduction to who/what BRTA is/aspires to
4.    Rugby-Leicester via old GC route, old Midland route or new build. Accommodating both Lutterworth (growth town) and Magna Park (one of Europe’s largest industrial parks)
5.    BRTA’s goal of a brand- new corridoric railway for passenger and goods from a Rugby Central Parkway Station with disabled access to the East-West Railway (Oxford-Bletchley) and associated links to and from Leicester/East Midlands via Rugby, Willoughby, Southam/Daventry arc, Woodford Halse, Brackley/Silverstone orbits and maybe serving Buckingham – Verney with realignments/new-build like at Padbury. East and West curves for optimum feed. West gives Oxford, Reading, Swindon, Bath, Bristol, South West and South Wales links and vice versa – footfall and spend, more rail choices and environmental benefits. Alongside HS2, a conventional railway for passenger and freight capacity with local stations for connectivity. Switch £27 billion new roads funding to fund more rail capacity and links?
6.    Current Rugby Bus and Rail matters
7.    Recruitment for BRTA membership and offers to help with this project
8.    Email MP’s and councils/email local news outlets supporting studying, route protection and finding solutions to problems and cutting congestion/air pollution.
9.    Any Other Business
10.          Date, Time, Place, of next meeting (Summer or Autumn 2025) or interim Zoom – can agenda it.



Reader: 
Just a reminder that our Rugby Forum is on this Saturday 25th January 2025 and an agenda and diagram is attached. We need support to the principle of corridor new build of a railway able to take passenger and goods and inform more capacity between Bletchley, Northampton and Rugby. It needs a study to come up with routing options, feasibility, engineering and deviation possibilities. 
Buckingham, Brackley, Banbury, Daventry, Southam and Rugby, let alone grow areas of Magna Park and Lutterworth are growing areas and Leicester is a busy gateway to/from the East Midlands and East Anglia by rail.  Please help us and find a way forward beit Great Central Corridor or adjacent to (new-build) or old Midland Route North of Rugby (many blockages/deviations required) and getting into Leicester itself, given development and blockages.

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