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Cravenrail 15.Qxp:Layout 1 CravenRail 15.qxp:Layout 1 4/11/10 09:57 Page 1 CravenRail The magazine for SELRAP: - the Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership Issue 15 Winter 2010/11 May 2010: ”We will reform the way decisions are made on which transport projects to prioritise, so that the benefits of low carbon proposals (including light rail) are fully recognised”.....c onfirmed [to SELRAP] by the Coalition Government as commitment to rail reopening[s] June 2010: “Well-judged capital spending by Government can help provide the new infrastructure our economy needs to compete in the modern world” ..... George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer July 2010: “The Government supports the reopening of railways in principle”..... Theresa Villiers, Rail Minister August 2010: "This Government is about much more than cuts" ..... Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister I guess the ultimate affirmation of this collective intent would be a Coalition Government commitment within this Parliament to secure the reopening of the Skipton-Colne line ..... Ed. Overlaid on to the Northern City Regions, the strategic route map says it WCML, CARLISLE & SCOTLAND, CARLISLE, E ECML, SCOTLAND & all ..... SOUTH LAKES, SCOTLAND CUMBRIA, YORKS DALES NORTH EAST CUMBRIAN COAST & Carnforth Harrogate MORECAMBE Bolton Abbey (planned) YORK Ilkley Skipton Shipley THE MISSING Keighley LINK Colne BRADFORD LEEDS • ECONOMIC Clitheroe Blackpool Rosegrove Nelson GROWTH Burnley HULL & BLACKBURN • JOBS PRESTON EAST COAST • REGENERATION Wigan PORTS Todmorden Halifax • CONNECTIVITY Bolton Rochdale MANCHESTER Huddersfield • SOCIAL LIVERPOOL & Doncaster MOBILITY MERSEY PORTS Manchester Airport • TOURISM Crewe WCML, LONDON & ECML, LONDON & WEST MIDLANDS EAST MIDLANDS For more reasons than one, the time frame for turning rhetoric into the reality of a brand new trans-Pennine route via Skipton & Colne is 2014-19 NORTH WALES Diagramatic only. Not all lines/stations shown Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership LINKING CITIES AND REGIONS ACROSS THE NORTH Patrons: Richard Bannister; Lord Tony Greaves; Rt Revd Nicholas Reade; former MP Gordon Prentice. MPs Gordon Birtwistle; Nigel Evans; Anne McIntosh; Julian Smith; Andrew Stephenson. MEPs Chris Davies; Jacqueline Foster; Timothy Kirkhope; Brian Simpson; Diana Wallis. CravenRail 15.qxp:Layout 1 4/11/10 09:57 Page 2 2 TIMELINE TOWARDS REOPENING THE SKIPTON- COLNE RAILWAY ..... 2014-19 Contents 2006: Autumn conference paves the way for SELRAP to commission the JMP study 2007: JMP study published. Concludes that there is a business case [with a BCR of up to 2.43] for reopening the Skipton-Colne rail line as part of a new trans- Pennine route for passengers and freight 2008: Within the Lancashire & Cumbria RUS, Network Rail indicates that funding is the remaining obstacle to reopening the Skipton-Colne line 2009: Speaking at Autumn conference, [then] Shadow Transport Ministers, MPs, MEPs, Consultants, Planners & Rail Industry Top Brass combine to conclude that the case for reopening the rail line between Skipton and Colne is now proven beyond doubt. And that the time has come to move towards delivery of this landmark project. FRONT COVER Clearly illustrating SELRAP’s strapline: Linking Cities and Regions across the North: Also in 2009: And the fact that reopening the Skipton-Colne line is the key to unlocking a strategic transport corridor that will open up countless journey On a visit to West Craven, opportunities for both passenger and freight traffic. Lancashire, (pictured left) whilst acknowledging that funding for This edition of CravenRail focusses on options for reinstating rail routes is an issue, David Cameron spoke in support of transforming rhetoric into the reality of a brand new rail the restoration of the Skipton- route that will turn around the economies and Colne rail line. expectations of an entire region. And beyond. And Nick Clegg said: SELRAP is currently exploring innovative, cutback-busting funding options for rebuilding the Skipton-Colne line. “The work and dedication of SELRAP to reinstate the Colne to Skipton rail link is Read on for more on SELRAP’s exciting and far reaching highly admirable. The success of this project will create new business and regeneration campaign that has metamorphosed mindsets ..... opportunities for the surrounding area. This will bring untold benefits to the local people of Lancashire and Yorkshire. I am very pleased P 3: COMMENT ..... to put my support behind this project.” On short termism. And potential antidotes ..... 2010: Mindful of the above, SELRAP develops options for 4 IT’S BEEN QUITE A TIME SINCE ..... funding the groundbreaking rebuild: 4 IMAGINE YOU WERE ON THE COMMITTEE ..... • Taking the project forward ourselves via a Project 5 JUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS Development Group as outlined by JRC Consulting in a 5 THE WAY FORWARD report recently commissioned by SELRAP www.jrc.org.uk 6 INFORMED, PROFESSIONAL, PERSUASIVE • Persuading the DfT to include the rebuild within the ITT (Invitation to Tender) for the [possibly re-worked] 6 RESONSE REQUIRED Northern franchise post 2013 7/8 PENNINE LANCASHIRE PERSPECTIVE • Persuading potential bidders for the above to include 9 SUPPORT the rebuild as an incentive/sweetener 10 NEW PATRONS • Persuading a private company to take on the rebuild on the back of industrial/housing and/or regeneration 11 JOINED UP THINKING development opportunities the new route throws up 11 GETTING CLOSER • Persuading a freight operator to fund the rebuild on 12 MEMBERSHIP FORM & CONTACTS the back of access charges paid by future users • Via recently-floated £1bn Regional Growth Fund, Local 12 FROM THE CHAIR Economic Partnerships et al 12 NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME • Persuading the Government to fund the rebuild as a 12 MEETINGS SCHEDULE pilot ..... based on best practices ie. more for less, as per [Value for Money Study] Professor Roy McNulty SELRAP has many friends who continue to make the campaign the success it plainly is. You, the reader, can • Persuading the EU to [at least] part-fund the rebuild as help progress this far reaching scheme still further by part of a new east coast-west coast port-port route lobbying any of the countless bodies and organisations ..... and part of the Trans European Network mentioned in this edition of CravenRail. But don’t stop • The formation of a consortium based, maybe, on a there. Spread the message still further. If you represent hybrid combination drawn from the above. the media, then ask what [more] your publication can do More on all of the above later. But you’ll see where to move minds towards a rail reopening that has been SELRAP’s headed next. That said, if you, the reader, has eloquently described as a “no brainer” ..... further inovative suggestion[s] for progressing the You might also care to join SELRAP ..... Skipton-Colne line rebuild, we’d appreciate them ..... CravenRail 15.qxp:Layout 1 4/11/10 09:57 Page 3 3 Comment Dream to Reality: On short termism: By the time you read this, the world’s All too often attended by impressive displays of sentiment from the great and good, media will have moved on. But it won’t make the high profile rescue of 33 hindsight is a wonderful facility. Indeed, from the beginning of time it has served as a miners in Chile the less amazing. universal get out of that clause for bad decisions on a wide front The same might be said of Nelson And nowhere is this hypothesis more three dimensionally demonstrated than the British Mandela’s long walk to freedom in the rail industry. Its convoluted history being littered with all shades of political and face of crushing apartheid. Or, from the other side of the Atlantic, fellow planning decision that might have been put together on the back of an envelope. civil rights activist, Martin Luther King. The UK rail network developed in a fragmented fashion and entirely in response to Who “Had a Dream” ..... contemporary commercial demands. As for strategic routes. That concept was for All of which, is a long way from a another age. But like it or lump it, the towns and cities, major industrial centres, ports voluntary campaign to reopen a and everything in between that combines to deliver our unique, diverse and railway? sophisticated economy are a direct result of the development of rail transport. Or is it? For somewhere in there is a common thread of chipping away at Post-war optimism led Prime Minister Harold McMillan to tell the nation they’d never had seemingly impossible odds in the it so good. And of the glowing future we were all to enjoy. Teenagers, pop music and certain knowledge of ultimate success. indoor bathrooms. A brave vision of a full employment. Concrete. Consumerism. And there are parallels to be found in Cars for everyone. With empty roads to drive them on. A brand new economy of with railways: industrial estates and out of town shopping malls trailing in the wake of the motorway. In short, a nation fixated with road nirvana that was to drive all of that modernity. 20 years from concept to reality, As for the railways: in a multiple outbreak of short term policies aimed at returning the and now lauded network to profit, they were to be modernised. But then, having failed to deliver on the by the media, “Tornado” is the latter, they were to be “reshaped.” You know the rest: a half-sized and much simplified first express network that is currently creaking at the seams with capacity issues on a wide front. steam locomotive to be built in the It is easy to say I could have told you so. But imagine, if you will, a tabloid tale of UK for almost fifty Britain’s [non-profit making] roads that went something like this:: years. Road network to be reshaped: Taken on Glasgow Central station in 2009, the fuzzy photograph of the It has emerged that, faced with a raft of budgeting issues, Britain’s deficit-hit destination board below should not transport bosses are considering cuts to the road network.
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