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Clearing The AN INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR RAIL USERS No 139 £2 April 2014 Clearing the way Picture: NETWORK RAIL See page 2 Page one picture Rail is taking off LOCAL ACTION Heathrow is likely to gain a new start in 2016 if planning permis- To York Yorkshire link so that passengers from the sion is granted, with tunnelling and Selby By Chris Hyomes [email protected] West can travel by rail direct to in 2018. The project would be ML EC the airport. complete in 2021. ver e o n n dg Electrification To Knottingley bri It will reduce the need to travel d to erte into London and back out again, A double for Corby div The Halifax Courier, the Hebden Road level crossing or transfer by bus on congested to be closed Bridge Times and the Todmorden roads. The line from Kettering to Corby News are backing calls for the is to be doubled this year, under- Do Calder Valley railway line to be Network Rail announced in Feb- nca lining the success of Corby ste electrified. Nina Smith of Railfuture ruary that it was planning to pro- r No Joan Croft rth vide a service from Reading, via station since it was reopened five Cho Junction said there is a massive groundswell rd of support right along the Leeds- Slough, to Heathrow. years ago. Railfuture’s David Fursdon, who Manchester route via Halifax for it Network Rail has met MPs and to be electrified. Calder Valley MP other stakeholders to discuss has promoted the new services Craig Whittaker has also spoken in to Corby, said he was optimistic e the detailed plans, known as the lin favour of electrification. The Halifax n that a second platform would ai & District Rail Action Group said: Western Rail Access Programme. m soon be installed at the town. st “It’s a no-brainer.” The group says A new junction would be cre- oa To Scunthorpe C it is astonishing that the line was David is delighted that the Corby ast and Immingham ated between Langley and Iver E not included in a list of lines to be stations, linking with a three- Evening Telegraph, as well as TV and radio stations are keen to considered for electrification. HADRAG insists: “If our line is mile tunnel for trains to go to not electrified this will mean keeping diesel trains to operate Heathrow Terminal 5. A steering report the good news and to interview rail campaigners. He Calder Valley line services that will run under the wires to group, including Network Rail, destinations beyond Leeds, Manchester and Preston. This the Department for Transport, said: “I am proud of what we are reduces efficiency and hence increases costs. The alternative achieving.” To Shaftholme Junction Thames Valley Berkshire local Doncaster Existing of an isolated diesel Calder Valley – connectivity lost – using enterprise partnership, Slough The number of people using and London freight line outdated units well into the 2020s is simply not acceptable. borough council and the Airport, Corby nearly doubled from to Scunthorpe We should be planning for electrification now.” has been set up to make progress 115,400 in 2009-10 to 215,400 in and Immingham n n on the proposals. Work could 2011-12. More improvements needed at Halifax station DIAGRAM OF PAGE ONE PICTURE: The new chord allows There have been big improvements at Halifax station over the ISSN 0267-5943 www.railwatch.org.uk freight to travel across the East Coast main line without East Coast interloper past six years but Halifax & District Rail Action Group says railwatch impeding main line traffic while the newly diverted road allows more needs to be done, including plumbing improvements in is edited by Robert Stevens, John Stanford and Ray King, 4 Christchurch the level crossing near Joan Croft Junction to be closed It is possible that new Pendolinos from Alstom could be the toilets, attention to the inefficient power-operated doors Square, London E9 7HU Tel 020 8985 8548 [email protected] taking advantage of the extra capacity being created on to the platform and better signs. HADRAG also wants to see [email protected] [email protected] Our page one picture shows power stations because British the East Coast main line. Alliance Rail Holdings wants to an additional running line serving a restored platform 3. Printed by Print-Out, High Street, Histon, Cambridge CB4 4JD Tel: 01223 the new twin-track flyover energy policy is in flux at the run nine-coach tilting trains under the Great North Eastern n n £45 million reopening campaign for Ripon 232709. Railfuture members receive Railwatch free aimed at freeing up a notorious moment. The power stations are Railway brand between London, Newcastle and Edinburgh bottleneck over the East Coast involved in switching from coal from 2016. MPs have been urged to support £45 million plans to reopen Non-members can subscribe online at www.railfuture.org.uk/books/sub- main line. to biomass in an effort to reduce The Pendolinos could be targeting the Edinburgh and scription.php or by sending £8 (cheque payable to the Harrogate-Ripon-Northallerton railway. The Leeds The bridge and two miles of pollution, but the Government Newcastle segments of the market, two years before Railfuture) to: Alan Cocker, 11 Franklin Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9DX. Northern Railway Reinstatement Group sent a 19-point new line will take freight clear of is being accused of failing to Hitachi’s new Intercity Express trains are introduced on proposal, highlighting the economic benefits, especially if Copy deadlines: For the next issue, published in June, copy must be Shaftholme Junction, just north provide subsidies to allow the ECML. Alliance believes it can persuade people who further routes to Leeds and Wetherby are reopened. The MP emailed to [email protected] by 7 May. Paper copy can be sent to 4 of Doncaster. all of them to continue in full currently fly to switch to rail. It applied to the Office of Rail for Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith, told the Yorkshire Post: Christchurch Square, London E9 7HU but must be earlier. operation. Regulation in February for permission to operate under “I’m very supportive of any ideas for returning the railways to The £45 million chord will open access rules. Ripon – but thus far there needs to be more detail and much Advertising: Full page: £190. Half page: £95. Quarter page: £45. allow for freight trains serving “We see coal shrinking very rapidly from now on, probably more focus on the cost-benefit analysis of any proposals.” Small ads are free to members. Otherwise: 30p per word. Immingham docks and the But Railfuture member Graham Lund said: “It is bizarre that contributing nothing to power Regional Transport Partnerships, will run for eight or nine years, Please report any problems with the delivery or condition of your copy of three power stations of Drax, Ripon with a population of over 16,000 inhabitants, is not a generation by 2030,” Energy after a series of meetings at Railwatch to [email protected] or to the E9 7HU address above. Ferrybridge and Eggborough to well beyond 2018 or 2019 when front runner for funds to reopen its long abandoned rail link keep clear of the main line. Minister Michael Fallon told Peterborough, Doncaster, new Intercity Express trains built to Harrogate and Leeds. The Times in December. “Coal Newcastle and Edinburgh. Railfuture They currently have to travel by Hitachi for Agility Trains at is going to disappear off the The Government has ignored a new train factory in Newton n n £17 million project to improve Leeds station is independent and voluntary. It is the campaigning name of the Railway along the East Coast main line system.” for a short section, sometimes a Trades Union Congress Aycliffe will become available Development Society Ltd, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. In 2012, coal generated 40% supported campaign to keep the for the East Coast line. Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin described Leeds as Registered in England and Wales No 5011634. delaying passenger trains. a “gateway to the north” in February when he praised the of British electricity. Freight East Coast franchise in the hands The East Coast line has had Registered Office: 24 Chedworth Place, Tattingstone, Suffolk IP9 2ND. The project will also clear the trains are however expected £17 million project to improve the station by opening up a of Directly Operated Railways an ill-starred history since southern entrance. way for the closure of Joan Croft to transport much of the which has run EC services since Media enquiries level crossing (middle right in privatisation. Twice it has had to biomass which will become one 2009. In January, it named three be taken back into public hands n n Rail North team prepares for new franchises Bruce Williamson, 29 Granby Hill, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4LT. the picture) because the road is alternative fuel. Providing more bidders on a shortlist to take Tel: 0117 9272954 Mobile: 07759 557389 being diverted and a new road because of the financial failure capacity on the East Coast main over the franchise of the of its operators (first GNER and A partnership between local councils and the Department Email: [email protected] bridge, top right, is part of the line could help Alliance Rail 393-mile long line. for Transport was set up in January to oversee the renewal scheme. then National Express). Holdings (owned by Arriva, The three are East Coast Trains in 2016 of the TransPennine Express and Northern rail Membership £18 per year.
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