Please join us for our event in Brighton:

Please join us for our event in Brighton:

Trying to get the Guildford-Horsham-Shoreham rail link rebuilt for modern daily rail usage to be enhanced and increased. This would have multiple on/off the rails benefits and link both strategic regional places like Reading, Heathrow, Gatwick and Brighton and all in between and offer access to Portsmouth and Southampton for freight as a relief to Reading-Didcot for everything, creating much needed capacity. Likewise relief to the Brighton Main Line and associated radial roads. Lewes-Uckfield deals with the eastern flank, but in a context of growth, we need the western flank re-railed as well - not all eggs in one-sided baskets! We need balance. Will you join us? https://ertarail.co.uk/become-a-member/ 

We welcome everyone who may be genuinely interested and supportive, but welcome especially students who may wish to explore how they could benefit the project, team, bring time, talent and gain experience e.g. campaigns, media advocacy and negotiating with both industry and elected representatives with others to help move things forward. Raising members and money is all for the good to inform a budget as well.

Join our free email loop: richard.erta@gmail.com 

All meeting enquiries to Mr David Ferguson.

How our suggestion fits into the map of ideas and benefits:

London Woes as Strikes and Sluggish Systems Fail to deliver progressive improvements in a timely manner.

09 January 2017

Press Release

London Woes as Strikes and Sluggish Systems Fail to deliver progressive improvements in a timely manner.

Today’s and other recent strikes are no more ideological than those in Government who are passing the buck of calling in Franchises and questioning whether more train services should be handed to TfL to manage or not. The result is a paralysation and on the ground whilst routine maintenance is happening, the grand scale plans seem remiss as HS2 takes Government time and resource and the millions of ordinary transport users are treated appallingly at cost.

ERTA believes the following should be looked at:

1. Tolling the M25 every 15 miles would inform a pot of money which could be used to invest to get London moving.

2. Bringing to fruition an urban London tram system would help central London cope with ever more numbers of people and mobility issues. But cars need to be cleared from Central London like Euston/St Pancras Road to enable trams and buses to get through, currently the whole road network grinds to a halt.

3. Southern lines like the Brighton Line needs to be made into Continental Loading Gauge and Dutch double-decker trains need to be imported to cater for growing volume of usage to relatively static terminal and track/station access capacity. Dutch double-deck trains are decades long tried and tested technology and this would enable greater numbers in more comfort to access existing terminals. 

4. Crossrail will be east-west, Southern radial lines are north-south like the Brighton Main Line. Crossrail 2 or 3 will take decades to deliver; we need something done interim to ease the pain of high volume London commute dependency, so the quicker plans to compulsory purchase and deliver Continental Loading Gauge are put in place the better for all.

5. Our other London suggestions can be found on our website page: https://ertarail.com/london/

End Press Release

Further comment: Campaigns Coordinator Mr Richard Pill 01234 330090 erta.rails6@yahoo.co.uk

Note: Source images of double-decker trains: 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Dutch+Double+decker+trains&rlz=1C1AOHY_enGB708GB708&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3ubf__rTRAhXjAcAKHePfADoQsAQIJw&biw=1280&bih=869