BRTA Forums at London and Braintree - all welcome.
BRTA Braintree
Forum agenda, which is taking place on Saturday 27 June at 3-5pm at The
Bull, Braintree, Market Place, Braintree CM17 3HJ Convenor: Simon Barber admin@brtarail.com Phone (landline): 020-8940-4399 Phone
(mobile): 07522-374740
Agenda
1.
Appointment of a chairperson for the
meeting
2.
Appointment of someone to take notes
3.
Stansted Airport Expansion - extending the rail links into Stansted from
the west onwards to link with the Braintree Branch and that of Colchester?
We need new members and volunteers to work on it and get meetings underway.
Email your MP as well: https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons?sort=1
4.
Lower Thames River Crossing: Should be rail-based not road. Please email
your councils and MP’s and join BRTA.
5.
Maldon Branch reopening: Old route gone, new route needed. Please give
support for a study.
6.
Extend LT Central Line to Harlow: Could be useful, needs a study.
7.
East-West Rail: Will link to Cambridge, but does it need a direct
curve east to south for direct Stansted running from the Oxford corridor?
8.
Cambridge-Haverhill: A study is needed and a push for it with a Phase 2
to Colchester by a new route given increasing population along it? Could be
useful for freight.
9.
Existing rail and buses issues and services – any scope for
improvements?
10.
Any Other Business
11.
Day, Date, Time and Place of next meeting in
East Anglia (Cambridge?)
Notes:
1. Please
join BRTA and help us do more and better
2. We
need an East Anglia Liaison officer to help grow our support based and
campaigns in East Anglia including Hunstanton new-build to connect a major
seaside resort to the rest of the rail network.
3. Please
peruse our East Anglia webpage and give feedback/offers via ceo@brtarail.com
https://brtarail.com/east-anglia/
BRTA London Forum Saturday 13 June at 3-5pm at The Barrel Vault, Unit 23, St. Pancras International Station, Pancras Road, London N1C 4QP Convenor Simon Barber: admin@brtarail.com
Phone (landline): 020-8940-4399 Phone (mobile): 07522-374740
1.
Election of a chairperson for the meeting
2.
Election of someone to take notes
3.
Lower Thames River
Crossing: Should Simon/Others email the Transport Secretary/Others saying BRTA
believe the crossing should be a rail-based solution, not road?
4.
Dudding Hill Line:
Reopening when? Email to find out!
5.
Old Oak Common; Heathrow
Southern & Western Railways: BRTA has a policy. How closely is this being
followed? Can different operators share the same tracks?
6.
Docklands Light Railway
extensions – invite TFL for a meeting.
7.
Chessington Line extension
to Leatherhead/Epsom; Crossrail 2 (SW-NE): What research has been done on
assessing route, access, clearances, case merits and courting a study? We need
a capable volunteer.
8.
Croxley Link: Needs a capable
volunteer to follow up and lobby for it.
9.
Muswell Hill Metro/Extend
LU Lines: Bring news to the meeting and follow up councils, groups and what
scope now?
10.
London Orbital Railways:
East-West and North-South needed. Outer M25 ‘new’ for passenger and freight,
which is why item (3) should be rail based as a starter and West London via Old
Oak Common to Aylesbury/Great Central Corridor to Leicester-Nuneaton Lines.
11.
Light Rapid Transits
(LRT/Trams) Networks should be allowed to grow organically via local including
Central London and Docklands Extension via North Circular Reform to Brent Cross
Railway Station: Yes, but again, needs a dedicated pioneer to get about
following it up.
12.
Kentish Town to
Gospel Oak Lines 1969 closed curve, for Thameslink to North-East London
integrations as well as Gospel Oak Lines to West Hampstead and Dudding Hill
Lines for Reading/Heathrow.
13.
State of London
Transport Generally, accessibility, costs, digital/analogue audiences and
improvements – do a list and ideas for more by rail either side of M25.
14.
14. Any Other
Business
15.
Day, Date, Time
and Place of next London Forum – you must decide it at the meeting bi-monthly
and tell the webmaster!
Please can all sign the
attendance list.
