RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION Compiled by Tony Smale for Railfuture (email: [email protected] ) Last updated: August 2020 Notes: 1 This regional list is generated from Railfuture’s National List of Rail User Groups. Not included: groups that are solely “Reopening Campaign Groups”. 2 The 14 regions are based on Railfuture Branch areas: Devon & Cornwall / East Anglia / / Lincolnshire / & South East / North East / North West / Scotland / Severnside / Thames Valley / Wales / Wessex / West Midlands / Yorkshire. Northern Ireland is also shown. 3 See also these lists: National List of Rail User Groups; National List of Reopening Campaign Groups; List of National & Regional Passenger Bodies. 4 If you have trouble contacting a particular group, please ask me via the above email address and I may be able to help. 5 “May be extinct” = I’ve had no contact with the group and an internet search does not reveal any recent mentions. Let me know if you revive! 6 Corrections and comments very welcome – please send details to the above email address.

Key:

 A = affiliated to Railfuture (L=lapsed) …but note that committee members of some non-affiliated RUGs are also individual members of Railfuture.

TOC1 TOC2 Train Operating Companies – the operators of passenger services in the area represented by the rail user group (up to 2 shown; may be >2)… Abellio Greater Anglia, Avanti West Coast, Caledonian Sleeper, C2C (London-Southend), Chiltern, , Elizabeth Line (TfL Rail), , First Hull Trains, First TransPennine, (Thameslink, Gt Northern, Southern, Gatwick Express), Grand Central, London North Eastern Railway, London Northwestern, London Overground, London Transport, Manchester MetroLink, Merseyrail, Nexus, Northern, ScotRail, South Eastern, South Western Railway, Transport For Wales, West Midlands Trains, X Country Trains.

 Group Website / Facebook / Email TOC1 TOC2 Notes

DEVON AND CORNWALL A Ashburton Rail Users’ Group Contact via http://www.teignrail.co.uk/index.php Hoping for a rail connection! Atlantic Coast Line, Friends of the (Cornwall) See: https://www.dcrp.org.uk/lines/atlantic-coast-line/ GWR Par to Newquay A Avocet Line Rail Users’ Group (Devon) http://www.avocetline.org.uk/ GWR Exeter to Exmouth Great Western Passengers’ Forum (aka GW Coffee Shop) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ GWR (online group) Ivybridge Rail Users’ Group (Devon) https://irugivybridge.weebly.com/ GWR North Devon Passenger Transport Users http://www.ndptu.org.uk/ GWR Barnstaple area St Germans Rail Users’ Group (Cornwall) F: sgrug GWR A Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users’ Group http://serug.co.uk/ SWR Saltash Rail Users’ Group (Cornwall) http://www.srug.org.uk site defunct GWR Tarka Rail Association (Devon) http://www.tarkarail.org/ GWR Exeter to Barnstaple Torbay Line Rail Users’ Group (Devon) GWR XCT Newton Abbot to Paignton Totnes Rail Users’ Group (Devon) email: [email protected] GWR XCT Whimple Rail Users Group F: Whimple-Rail-Users-Group SWR

Page 1 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION EAST ANGLIA Alresford Rail Users’ Group (Essex) Dormant, but contact via http://eruf.org/ AGA Chelmsford Commuters and Rail Travellers (CART) Contact via http://eruf.org AGA Colchester Rail Users’ Association Dormant, but contact http://eruf.org/ AGA L East Norfolk Transport Users’ Association http://www.entua.org.uk/ AGA Norwich to Great Yarmouth A East Suffolk Travellers’ Association http://www.eastsuffolktravel.org.uk/ AGA Lowestoft-based Essex Rail Users’ Federation http://eruf.org/ AGA C2C Gt Eastern main line A Felixstowe Travel Watch http://ftw.onesuffolk.net/ AGA A Fen Line Users’ Association http://www.flua.org.uk/ GTR AGA King’s Lynn to Cambridge Kelvedon Rail Users’ Association (Essex) Contact via http://eruf.org/ AGA A Manningtree Rail Users’ Association (Essex) http://www.mrua.org AGA Marks Tey Rail Users’ Association (Essex) Contact via http://eruf.org AGA A Meldreth, Shepreth & Foxton Rail User Group (Cambs) http://meldrethsheprethfoxtonrail.org.uk/ GTR A Mid Anglia Rail Passengers’ Association http://www.marpa.org.uk/ AGA Ipswich to Peterboro/Cambridge Norwich & Norfolk Transport Action Group AGA EMR A ONTRACK - see Walton-on-the-Naze AGA Peterborough-Ely-Norwich Rail Users’ Group http://www.penrug.org.uk/ AGA EMR Shelford and Whittlesford Rail User Group (Cambs) http://sawrug.org.uk/ AGA formed in 2017 Thurrock Rail Users’ Group (Essex) email: [email protected] C2C 7 stations including Tilbury Trimley Station Community Trust http://www.trimleystation.org/ AGA A Walton on the Naze, Frinton on sea, Kirby Cross and http://www.ontrackrailusers.org.uk/ AGA (Essex) Thorpe le Soken (ONTRACK) Rail Users’ Association Witham & Braintree Rail Users’ Association AGA

EAST MIDLANDS Derwent Valley Line, Friends of the () http://www.fdvl.org.uk/ EMR to Matlock Kettering Rail Users (Northamptonshire) EMR Re-established Feb 17 Leicester and Northants Rail Action Committee EMR XCT Comprises local authority delegates Northampton Rail Users’ Group http://www.northamptonrug.org.uk/ site defunct LNW AWC Stamford, Oakham and Melton Rail Users’ Group F: Stamford Oakham and Melton Rail Users’ Group EMR XCT Formed in 2016 Wellingborough Rail Users F: WellingboroughRailUsers EMR

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LINCOLNSHIRE A , Friends of the http://www.bartonrail.org.uk/ No Cleethorpes to Barton-u-Humber Brigg & Lincoln Lines, Friends of the No EMR Gainsborough, Retford & Brigg Rail & Bus Users’ Group F: GainsboroughRaB No EMR aka: GRaB Market Rasen Station Adoption Group http://community.lincolnshire.gov.uk/marketrase EMR nstationadoptiongroup/ Market Rasen Rail Users’ Group F: MarketRasenRug EMR A South East Lincolnshire Travellers’ Association EMR Skegness to Nottingham Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum http://www.spaldingtransportforum.co.uk/ EMR Stamford, Oakham and Melton Rail Users’ Group F: Stamford Oakham and Melton Rail Users’ Group EMR XCT Formed in 2016

LONDON AND SOUTH EAST A Abbey Flyer Users’ Group (St Albans) http://www.abfly.org.uk/ LNW Alexandra Palace - Friends of Ally Pally Station http://www.friendsofallypallystation.co.uk/ GTR Alresford Rail Users’ Group (Essex) Dormant, but contact via http://eruf.org/ AGA Alton Line Users’ Association F: AltonLineUsers SWR Waterloo--Alton Arlesey Rail Users’ Group F: ArleseyRailUsersGroup GTR Ashwell Rail User Group (Hertfordshire) E: [email protected] GTR Association of British Commuters (Sussex based) https://abcommuters.wordpress.com/ GTR A Association of Public Transport Users (Thameslink) http://www.aptu.org.uk/ GTR Harlington to West Hampstead Aylesbury Vale Transport Users’ Group (Bucks) Ch Baldock Rail User Group https://www.baldockrail.com/ GTR Barking-Gospel Oak Rail User Group http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/ LO Bearsted Commuter Group (Kent) SE A Bedford Commuters’ Association http://www.bedfordcommuters.org.uk/ EMR GTR Bedford & Flitwick L Bedford to Bletchley Rail Users’ Association http://www.bbrua.org.uk/ LNW Bexhill Rail Action Group (East Sussex) http://www.bexhillrailaction.org.uk/ GTR Biggleswade Rail Users’ Group (Beds) F: Biggleswade Rail Users Group GTR Brentwood Bus & Rail Users’ Association http://www.bbarua.org.uk/ AGA Brighton Line Commuters (incl Eastbourne & Worthing) http://www.brightonlinecommuters.org GTR A Cambridge Heath and London Fields Rail Users’ Group http://railusergroups.net/CHLFrug/CHLFrug_home.html AGA Capital Transport Campaign (London), Friends of the E: [email protected] LT LO Catford Loop – The Cinderella Line Campaign http://www.acinderellaline.com/ GTR South London stations Charlton, Transport for (SE London) https://transportforcharlton.wordpress.com/ SE Dormant Chelmsford Commuters and Rail Travellers (CART) Contact via http://eruf.org AGA

Page 3 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION L Chesham and District Transport Users' Group (Bucks) http://www.cdtug.org/ LT A Chingford Line Users’ Association (Essex) http://www.railfuture.org.uk/tiki- AGA index.php?page=CLUA-Introduction Clapham Transport Users’ Group (South London) LO LT Colchester Rail Users’ Association Dormant, but contact http://eruf.org/ AGA A Cooksbridge Station Partnership http://www.hamsey.net/your-community/cooksbridge- GTR (Sussex) aka Cooksbridge Area Rail Action Group (CARAG) station-partnership/ Rail Travellers’ Association F: DartfordRailTA SE Covers 7 stations in Dartford boro’ Deal, Trains for (Trains4Deal) http://www.trains4deal.com/ SE May be extinct Ealing Passenger Transport User Group (West London) http://www.eptug.org.uk/ site defunct LT GWR Dormant (as at Aug 2018) East Coastway Commuters’ Group (Eastbourne-based) http://www.eastcoastway.org.uk/ GTR May be extinct (no reply) A East Transport Committee E: [email protected] GTR East Sussex Rail Alliance http://eastsussexrail.org.uk/ GTR SE A Edenbridge & District Rail Travellers’ Association () E: [email protected] GTR SE Enfield Transport Users’ Group (Essex) http://enfieldtransportusersgroup.blogspot.com/ AGA GTR Website (blogspot) moribund A English Regional Transport Association https://ertarail.com/ EMR GTR Bedfordshire based Essex Rail Users’ Federation http://eruf.org/ AGA C2C Gt Eastern main line Folkestone & Dover Commuter Group F: FolkestoneDoverCommuterGroup SE Greenwich Line Users’ Group https://greenwichline.org.uk/ SE Deptford, Greenwich, Maze Hill and Westcombe Park stations Guildford Rail Users E: [email protected] SWR GWR (online group) A Hadley Wood Rail Users’ Group http://www.hadleywood.org.uk/railway.html GTR London Borough of Enfield Hanwell Station Users’ Group F: hanwellstation EL Harborough Rail Users (Market Harborough) https://www.harborough-rail.org.uk/ EMR Harpenden Thameslink Commuter Group F: harpendencommuters GTR Harrow Public Transport Users’ Association (N London) F: HarrowPublicTransportUsersAssociation LT Ch Haslemere Rail Users’ Group (Surrey) http://www.haslemere.com/hrug/ SWR Hassocks Amenity Association Rail Group (Sussex) https://www.hassockscommunity.org.uk/ GTR Hastings and Rother Rail Users’ Alliance E: [email protected] GTR SE Alliance of 6 RUGs A Hatfield Association of Rail Travellers (HART) http://www.hatfieldrail.com/ GTR Hitchin Rail Users’ Group (Hertfordshire) E: [email protected] GTR Ingatestone Rail Users’ Association (Essex) Contact via http://eruf.org/ AGA Kelvedon Rail Users’ Association (Essex) Contact via http://eruf.org/ AGA Kingston Area Travellers’ Association (SW London) http://e-voice.org.uk/kata/ SWR Group inactive Knebworth Rail Users’ Forum F: Knebworthruf GTR Laindon Passenger Group (Essex) F: LaindonPassengerGroup - LPG C2C Lambeth Public Transport Group (South London) E: [email protected] LT LO

Page 4 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION Lewes Rail Users’ Group F: LewesRailUsers GTR 2020: in process of being set up Letchworth Rail Users Group F: LetchworthRailUsers GTR Luton Station Action Group F: LutonStationActionGroup GTR A Manningtree Rail Users’ Association (Essex) http://www.mrua.org AGA Marks Tey Rail Users’ Association (Essex) Contact via http://eruf.org AGA A Marsh Link Action Group http://www.mlag.org.uk/ GTR SE Hastings to Ashford A Marylebone Travellers’ Association E: [email protected] Ch LT Denham & High Wycombe users Medway Transport Forum (Kent) E: [email protected] SE Metropolitan Line Users' Committees, Federation of LT Ch Orbital London Group E: [email protected] LO A Ore Transport Group (Sussex) E: [email protected] GTR Orpington & District Passenger Transport Users’ Association SE A Plumstead and Woolwich Rail Users’ Group (PAWRUG) https://pawrug.home.blog/ GTR Pstd, W Arsenal & W Dockyard Preston Park Train Campaign (Brighton) F: Preston Park Train Campaign GTR A Reigate, Redhill & District Rail Users’ Association https://www.rrdrua.org.uk/ GTR GWR Royston & Villages Rail Users Group F: roystonrailusers GTR St Albans Commuter & Passenger Action Group F: St Albans Commuter & Passenger Action Group GTR See also Abbey Flyer A St Leonards & Hastings Rail Improvement Programme F: 1066shrimprail GTR SE (SHRIMP) A Sevenoaks Rail Travellers’ Association http://www.srta.org.uk/ SE GTR Southeastern Railway Action Group F: SERailAction SE Voice of Southeastern rail users Southend Rail Travellers’ Association E: [email protected] C2C AGA Southwark Rail Users’ Group (South London) http://www.bellenden.net/srug LO GTR Website moribund Stevenage Rail Users’ Group F: Stevenage Rail Users Group GTR Sudbury Town Residents’ Association/rail campaign http://stra.org.uk/stra-projects/transport/ Ch LT A Sutton Rail Users’ Forum (Surrey) http://sruf.org.uk/ site defunct GTR Three Oaks and Winchelsea Action for Rail Transport email: [email protected] GTR (THWART) Thurrock Rail Users’ Group (Essex) email: [email protected] C2C 7 stations including Tilbury A Tonbridge Line Commuters http://tonbridgecommuters.org.uk/cms/ SE GTR Incl: Hildenboro & Paddock Wood Tunbridge Wells & District Rail Travellers’ Association http://www.tunbridge-wells-commuters.org.uk/ SE A Watford Rail Users’ Group E: [email protected] LNW AWC Welham Green Rail Users’ Group (Hertfordshire) http://www.welhamgreen.com/rug.html GTR (website moribund; group still operational in 2018)

Welwyn North Rail Users’ Group (Hertfordshire) E: [email protected] GTR Group http://www.westlondonlinegroup.org.uk/ LO GTR Clapham Jcn-Willesden A West Sussex Rail Users’ Association http://www.wsrua.org.uk/ GTR Witham & Braintree Rail Users’ Association AGA

Page 5 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION NORTH EAST Alnmouth Rail Users’ Group (Northumberland) http://www.arug.org.uk/ site defunct LNE XCT Coastliners (Sunderland-Hartlepool-Stockton-Middlesbro’) http://www.necoastliners.co.uk No GC Electric Railway Charter https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No Northern electrification campaign Esk Valley Railway Development Company http://www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk/ No Middlesbrough to Whitby Northern electrification, campaign for (Electric Charter) https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No FTP Northern Resist (Facebook Group) F: NorthernResist No Fed up with Northern A Saltburn Line User Group (Redcar-Cleveland) F: saltburnlineusergroup No A South East Northumberland Rail Users’ Group http://www.senrug.co.uk/ No XCT (SENRUG) Tyne & Wear Public Transport Users’ Group http://www.twptug.org.uk/ No Nex A Tyne Valley Rail Users’ Group http://www.tvrug.org.uk/ No

NORTHERN IRELAND Into The West rail lobby group (Northern Ireland) F: FoyleRailLobby NIR Belfast-Derry/Londonderry

NORTH WEST A Blackpool and Fylde Rail Users’ Association F: Blackpool-Fylde-Rail-Users-Association No FTP L Bolton Rail Users’ Group https://boltonrailusersgroup.godaddysites.com/ No FTP Carnforth Railway Action Group (Lancashire) http://carnforthplatforms.org/ FTP No Carnforth Station, Friends of (Lancashire) http://www.carnforthstation.co.uk/index.html FTP No A Chinley & Buxworth Transport Group (Derbyshire) http://www.chinleybuxworthtg.co.uk/ No with Friends of Chinley Station Crewe & Shrewsbury Passengers’ Association http://www.caspa.org.uk/ TFW WMT A Cumbrian Coast Rail Users’ Group http://www.crug.org.uk/ No A Denton Station, Friends of (Greater Manchester) http://www.dentonstation.co.uk/ site defunct No (one train per week) East Lancashire Line Association, Save the (STELLA) No May be extinct Electric Railway Charter https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No Northern electrification campaign A Furness Line Action Group https://www.furnesslineactiongroup.co.uk/ No FTP Carnforth-Barrow-Cumbria coast A Goyt Valley Rail Users’ Association (Greater Manchester) http://www.marple-uk.com/community/railusers.htm No Marple, New Mills & Rose Hill Greenfield Station Rail Action Group (Oldham) F: greenfieldstationusers No Handforth Station, Friends of (Cheshire) http://www.handforthstation.org.uk/ No L Hope Valley Railway Users’ Group http://hopevalleyrailway.org.uk/ No FTP Sheffield-Hope-Manchester Isle of Man, TravelWatch http://www.travelwatch-isleofman.org/ A Lakes Line Rail User Group (Cumbria) http://www.llrug.co.uk/ No FTP Oxenholm to Windermere Lancaster and Morecambe Rail Users’ Group http://www.lmrug.org site defunct No FTP L Lancaster and Skipton Rail Users’ Group http://www.lasrug.btck.co.uk/ No FTP

Page 6 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION A Littleborough Stations, Friends of (Lancashire) http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/sites/friends-of- No Littleborough & Smithy Bridge littleborough-stations/home A Mid Cheshire Rail Users’ Association http://www.mcrua.org.uk/ No LNW Manchester-Chester & Crewe-Liverpool A North Cheshire Rail Users’ Group http://www.ncrug.org.uk/ TFW No Northern electrification, campaign for (Electric Charter) https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No FTP Northern Resist (Facebook Group) F: NorthernResist No Fed up with Northern A Oldham Rochdale Manchester line, Support the http://www.stormrail.info/ No MLk (STORM) A Ormskirk, Preston & Southport Travellers’ Association http://www.opsta.btck.co.uk/ No Mer A Reddish South Station, Friends of (Greater Manchester) https://friendsofreddishsouthstation.co.uk/ No (one train per week) A Ribble Valley Rail (Lancashire) http://www.ribblevalleyrail.co.uk/ No Blackburn-Clitheroe-(Hellifield) A Rose Hill Station, Friends of (Cheshire) http://www.forhs.org.uk/ No A St Anne’s Stations, Friends of (Lancs) http://friendsofstannesontheseastation.btck.co.uk/ No A Settle-Carlisle Line, Friends of the http://www.foscl.org.uk/ No A Shrewsbury-Chester Rail Users’ Association F: ShrewsburyChester TFW AWC A Stalybridge To Huddersfield Rail Users’ Group email: [email protected] A STORM – see Oldham Rochdale Manchester http://www.stormrail.info/ No MLk Styal Station, Friends of (Cheshire) http://www.styal-station.org.uk/ site defunct No A Wirral Transport Users’ Association (Cheshire) http://www.wirraltua.org.uk/ Mer TFW A Wrexham-Bidston Rail Users’ Association https://wbrua.org/ TFW

SCOTLAND Borders Rail, Campaign for (Edinburgh-Tweedbank) https://campaignforbordersrail.org/ Sco A user group following reopening Capital Rail Action Group (Edinburgh) http://www.capitalrail.org.uk/ LNE Sco Clydesdale Rail Users’ Group (South Lanarkshire) F: Clydesdale Rail Users Group Sco AWC Cumbernauld Commuters’ Association (N Lanarkshire) E: [email protected] Sco A East of Scotland, Rail Action Group (RAGES) http://www.rages.org.uk/ Sco LNE Edinburgh to N Berwick/Dunbar A Far North Line, Friends of the http://www.fofnl.org.uk/ Sco CS Inverness to Wick/Thurso Kyle Line, Friends of the http://www.kylerailway.co.uk/ Sco CS Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh Lockerbie Station Liaison Group (Dumfries & Galloway) Sco AWC Reconvened in 2020 Nith Valley Line Promotion Group Covers Kilmarnock-Dumfries-Carlisle Sco May be extinct Pitlochry Station Liaison Group (Perth & Kinross) Contact via: https://www.highlandmainlinecrp.co.uk/ Sco CS A RAGES – see East of Scotland Sco LNE RailQwest (West of Scotland rail campaign) E: [email protected] Sco CS A Scotland, Railfuture http://www.railfuturescotland.org.uk/ Scottish Accessible Transport Alliance http://www.scottishaccessibletransport.org.uk/ Sco LNE Disability forum West Highland Lines, Friends of http://www.westhighlandline.org.uk/ Sco CS Glasgow-Mallaig/Oban

Page 7 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION SEVERNSIDE Ashchurch and Tewkesbury District Rail Promotion Group https://atdrpg.wordpress.com/ GWR XCT A Bridgwater Station, Friends of (Somerset) GWR Bristol Alliance, Transport for Greater (TfGB) https://tfgb.org/ GWR XCT A Bristol Railways, Friends of Suburban (FOSBR) http://www.fosbr.org.uk/ GWR XCT A Cam & Dursley Transportation Group http://camanddursleytransportationgroup.weebly.com/ GWR Chippenham Rail User Group contact via https://transwilts.org/ GWR A Promotion Group http://www.clpg.org.uk/ GWR WMT Oxford-Worcester-Hereford Crewkerne Station, Friends of www.crewkernetown.org/friendsofcrewkernestation SWR Devizes Passengers F: DevizesPassengers Nearest stn: Chippenham/Pewsey Great Western Passengers’ Forum (aka GW Coffee Shop) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ GWR (online group) Melksham Rail User Group (Wiltshire) http://www.mrug.org.uk/ GWR A Pewsey Vale Rail User Group (Wiltshire) https://www.pewseycap.org.uk/pcap-active- GWR groups/pewsey-vale-rail-user-group/ Pilning Station Group (Bristol) http://www.pilningstation.uk/ GWR Severn Tunnel Action Group TFW XCT Severn Tunnel Junction A Suburban Bristol Railways, Friends of See: Bristol Railways, Friends of Suburban West Wiltshire Rail Users’ Group http://www.wwrug.org.uk/ GWR SWR

THAMES VALLEY L Bedford to Bletchley Rail Users’ Association http://www.bbrua.org.uk/ LNW L Bedwyn Trains Passenger Group (Wiltshire) http://www.bedwyntrains.org.uk/ GWR Cherwell Rail Users’ Group () E: [email protected] Ch Banbury to Bicester North Chiltern Line Association email: [email protected] Ch May be extinct (no reply) A Cotswold Line Promotion Group http://www.clpg.org.uk/ GWR WMT Oxford-Worcester-Hereford Great Western Passengers’ Forum (aka GW Coffee Shop) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ GWR (online group) Henley Branch User Group E: [email protected] FGW Wargrave, & Henley Henley Trains E: [email protected] FGW Henley commuters’ group Hungerford Users of Rail Transport GWR A Marlow-Maidenhead Passengers’ Association (MMPA) http://www.mmpa.org.uk/ GWR Ch Incl Henley, Wycombe & Taplow A Marylebone Travellers’ Association E: [email protected] Ch LT Denham & High Wycombe users Metropolitan Line Users’ Group E: [email protected] LT Ch Wendover to Chalfont & Latimer North Chiltern Rail Users’ Group E: [email protected] Ch Haddenham & Thame Parkway and Princes Risborough A Oxford-Bicester Rail Action Group http://www.obrag.org.uk/ Ch OxRail Passenger Group (Oxford) http://oxrailpassengergroup.wordpress.com/ GWR Website moribund Windsor Lines Passengers’ Association http://www.wlpa.co.uk/ SWR Waterloo-Windsor/Reading Page 8 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION WALES Chepstow, Better Trains for http://bt4c.org.uk/ TFW May be extinct Great Western Passengers’ Forum (aka GW Coffee Shop) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ GWR (online group) A Heart of Wales Line Travellers’ Association http://www.howlta.org.uk/ TFW Swansea to Shrewsbury North Pembrokeshire Transport Forum http://www.nptf.co.uk/ TFW GWR A Pembrokeshire Rail Travellers’ Association http://www.prta.org.uk/ TFW GWR Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth Rail Passengers’ Association http://sarpa.info/ TFW A Wales, Railfuture http://www.railfuturewales.org.uk/

WESSEX Alton Line Users’ Association F: AltonLineUsers SWR Waterloo-Woking-Alton A Basingstoke & District Railway Society http://www.bdrs70d.com/ SWR GWR Great Western Passengers’ Forum (aka GW Coffee Shop) http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/ GWR (online group) Haslemere Rail Users’ Group (Surrey) http://www.haslemere.com/hrug/ SWR A Isle of Wight Bus and Rail Users’ Group http://iwbususers.btck.co.uk/ SWR A Lymington-Brockenhurst Line, Friends of the (Hants) contact via http://www.lymington-brockenhurstcrp.co.uk/ SWR No 450 (against Class 450 units on London-Portsmouth) E: [email protected] SWR Portsmouth-based A Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users’ Group http://serug.co.uk/ SWR Shawford Rail Users’ Group () SWR South Hampshire Rail Users’ Group http://www.shrug.info/ SWR GWR West Wiltshire Rail Users’ Group http://www.wwrug.org.uk/ GWR SWR

WEST MIDLANDS Atherstone Rail Users’ Group (Warwickshire) E: [email protected] LNW AWC Bromsgrove And Redditch Rail User Partnership http://www.bromsgroverail.org.uk/ WMT Bromsgrove, Alvechurch, Barnt Green & (BARRUP) formerly Bromsgrove RUG Redditch stations A Cam & Dursley Transportation Group http://camanddursleytransportationgroup.weebly.com/ GWR A Cannock Chase Rail Promotion Group (Staffordshire) WMT Wallsall to Rugeley Church Stretton and District Rail Users’ Association http://strettonrailusers.org.uk/ TFW (Shropshire) A Cotswold Line Promotion Group http://www.clpg.org.uk/ GWR WMT Oxford-Worcester-Hereford Coventry Rail Action Group E: [email protected] WMT LNW Also AWC, XC Craven Arms Rail Users’ Association (Shropshire) http://www.ww33.com/rail/ TFW May be extinct Crewe & Shrewsbury Passengers’ Association http://www.caspa.org.uk/ TFW WMT A Herefordshire, Rail and Bus for https://rbfh.org.uk/ TFW GWR Leominster Rail Users (Shropshire) TFW A Lichfield Rail Promotion Group (Staffordshire) http://www.lichfieldrailusers.org.uk/ WMT LNW Also AWC Ludlow Rail Users (Herefordshire) TFW Page 9 RAILFUTURE LIST OF RAIL USER GROUPS, SORTED BY REGION Malvern’s Railway, Friends of https://www.malverncivicsociety.org.uk/friends-of- GWR WMT malverns-railway/ Marches Rail Users Alliance TFW GWR Hereford-Shrewsbury Marches Strategic Rail Group Comprises councillors and council officers TFW WMT Che-, Shrop- & Hereford-shires A North Staffordshire Rail Promotion Group http://northstaffsrail.wordpress.com/ LNW XCT Nuneaton, Bedworth & Hinckley Rail Users’ Group http://www.nbrug.org.uk/ WMT LNW Also AWC A Rugby Rail Users’ Group http://www.rugbyrailusersgroup.org.uk/ WMT AWC A Shakespeare Line Promotion Group (B’ham-Stratford) http://www.shakespeareline.com/ WMT Ch A Shrewsbury-Chester Rail Users’ Association F: ShrewsburyChester TFW AWC Shrewsbury Rail Users’ Federation TFW WMT Solihull and Leamington Rail Users’ Association http://salrua.org/ WMT Ch Birmingham-Solihull-Leamington A Stourbridge Line User Group http://www.stourbridgelineusergroup.info/ WMT CR

YORKSHIRE A Aire Valley Rail Users’ Group http://www.avrug.org.uk/ No Leeds/Bradford to Skipton A Bradford Rail Users’ Group http://bradfordrail.com/ No GC Brigg & Lincoln Lines, Friends of the No EMR Dore and Totley Station, Friends of (FoDaTS) http://www.fodats.net/ No Electric Railway Charter https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No Northern electrification campaign Esk Valley Railway Development Company http://www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk/ No Middlesbrough to Whitby A Halifax and District Rail Action Group https://hadrag.com/ No GC A Harrogate Line Rail Users’ Group E: [email protected] No LNE A Harrogate Line Supporters’ Group http://harrogateline.org/ No LNE L Hope Valley Railway Users’ Group http://hopevalleyrailway.org.uk/ No FTP Sheffield-Hope-Manchester A Huddersfield, Penistone and Sheffield Rail Users’ Association E: [email protected] No (HPSRUA) L Hull and East Riding Rail Users’ Association http://www.hullrailusers.co.uk/ site defunct No FTP * *also Hull Trains L Lancaster and Skipton Rail Users’ Group http://www.lasrug.btck.co.uk/ No FTP Northern electrification, campaign for (Electric Charter) https://electriccharter.wordpress.com/ No FTP Northern Resist (Facebook Group) F: NorthernResist No Fed up with Northern Pontefract & Knottingley, Campaign for Improved Rail Services in F: RailservicesinPontefractandknottingley No A Pontefract Civic Society rail sub-group http://www.pontefractcivicsociety.org.uk/ No A Selby and District Rail Users’ Group http://www.selbytowncouncil.gov.uk/useful-links/ FTP No * *also Hull Trains A Settle-Carlisle Line, Friends of the http://www.foscl.org.uk/ No Slaithwaite & Marsden Action on Rail Transport http://smart-rail.co.uk/ No FTP (W Yorkshire) A Stalybridge To Huddersfield Rail Users’ Group email: [email protected] L Upper Calder Valley Renaissance Sustainable Transport Gp email: [email protected] No Sowerby Br, M’royd, Hebden Br & Todmorden

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