Campaign The Levenmouth Rail Campaign Update 37 Newsletter January “ More Than Just a Railway ! ” 2018 Happy New Year, Everyone - Enjoy 2018! “More Than Just a Railway!”
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New Slogan … and Plenty of New Campaign Strategies “A F I R S T - C L A S S P r e se n t a t i o n f r o m @Playfair15 tonight - lots of well—evidenced analysis and useful recommendations! …...... … .. . ” — That was how the Above: The Playfair Consulting LMRC ‘re-tweeted’ the St. Group brief LMRC members at their meeting on Tuesday, 28th. November. Andrews-based Playfair Consulting Group for their impressive display at the The Dundee-Levenmouth final meeting of 2017 at Fife College, on Methil- Dundee, and its famous haven Road, Buckhaven. Tay railway bridge. The LMRC, and the Connection IImage:: Wiikiidata.. ‘News’ editor Alistair Ayn- scough, thank all of them LAST MONTH The LevenMouth Rail for all that sterling work! Campaign met up with their new He has already adopted the new LMRC campaign ‘mentors’, Playfair Consulting Group, and also Dundee Council ’s transport slogan ‘More Than Just a officials, for an important get together, to Railway’ for these news- discuss just how the Levenmouth rail link letters’ main title-banners. might benefit Dundee in future, and not connection could reduce Dundee’s likely The meeting, on Tues- day, 28th. November, was just Levenmouth. Gregor Hamilton, Head benefits but, by calling at a ‘minor’ plat- to set out new campaign of the Council ’s Planning and Economic form at one or other of the stations along strategies - including how Development division, chaired the meet- the way, a Levenmouth-Edinburgh train best to liaise with Councils ing, as his officials highlighted the Coun- could then be passed by a faster (or and the media, and how to cil’s top two strategic transport priorities non-stop) Dundee-Edinburgh one, with embrace social media and — to Reduce Journey Times between a similar arrangement suggested for enhance website or news- Dundee and other major Scottish cities, trains travelling in the opposite direction and also Improve Access to the City of — something that seems to be favoured. letter content; strengthen our case; attract new peo- Dundee for workers and visitors. The Council officials confirmed “the LMRC ple to our cause — and officials also said about half of Dundee’s has the potential to help Dundee Council learn from previous Scot- citizens do not have access to a car, and in their strategic transport priorities”. tish success stories like are wholly reliant on public transport. The importance of Fife Council’s the now-reinstated Airdrie- involvement with LMRC was highlighted Bathgate line and Borders LMRC State Their Case again. They play a significant part in the Railway. LMRC are cer- The Levenmouth Rail Campaign campaign to re-instate the Levenmouth Rail Link, and LMRC will remind them of tainly all-set for what they then stated their case to the Council - trust will be a very posi- who soon realised that this project would this at future meetings with their officials. tive, and productive, 2018. have significant benefits to Levenmouth, Talks with local Councils will be cru- and also have a definite potential to bring cial to find out just how the Levenmouth LMRC News Says: The benefits to wider areas of Scotland ... Rail Link would fit in with the future including Dundee. The Transport Com- National Transport Strategy, and also CREDIBLE mittee’s main concern was that services the Strategic Transport Review. might just run between Levenmouth and Further talks between Campaigners Journey Edinburgh, rather than between Leven- and at least one of the region’s Councils mouth and Dundee: the lack of a direct is due for later this month. Continues ! nm ‘REINSTATE THE LEVEN-EDINBURGH RAIL-LINK NOW!’ A n s
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Image by: ‘Railway Revival’ Proposals Ken Haig. Right: Old Kilpatrick Station, near Dumbar- ton, Glasgow, on 17 October 1970, is busy with rail enthusiasts. Above them, Erskine Bridge takes shape, nine months before its “I Like to M opening. This station, Move It …”* and much of the rail- way, closed in 1964. ♫♫ ♫♫ … tto Fife College Rooms ! [ Details: Wikipedia Website * ‘‘Song--Tiittlle Arrrrowss’’:: Reell tto Reall Ftt.. Mad Sttunttman,, [[1994]].. — Image: Lt. Col. D. M. Anderson Collection. ] Later LMRC Meetings … SOME OF THE Railways closed by Richard Beech- ing’s infamous 1963 “axe” and, later, by British Rail, may LMRC Action Group Meeting — yet be reinstated. Some 4,000 miles of track were closed Tuesday, 27th. February, 6.30 p.m.; by the ‘not-so-good doctor’ [but not the line to Leven- mouth] and lifted, mainly in rural areas — but now, U.K. LMRC Action Group Meeting Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has admitted “former — Tuesday, 27th. March, 6.30 p.m.; railways would be re-opened if they ‘unlock jobs, LMRC Action Group Meeting encourage house-building, ease congestion and offer value for money’ ”… - exac tly the kind of — Tuesday, 24th. April, 6.30 p.m.. criteria that make a re-opened Levenmouth Rail Other Dates and Contact Details Below … … Link such a beneficial and wise option to join this group. Work on a revived link between historic university cit- ies Oxford and Cambridge route starts this year, and Campaign Call - “Lobby Your MSP!’ Say LMRC there are also plans to re-open old lines around Bristol, THE LMRC Appeals for everyone who wants the Leven- Birmingham, Exeter and North-East England. … We would mouth Rail Link back to write to their MSP or MP (or Council- love to see a certain one in Scotland re-opened, too ! lor) right away. — The more you do, the more chance there will be for your long-lost rail-link to be reinstated in future… ! Chris Gray ling s aid: A new list, similar to one until lately published in LMRC News, “A new development pro- may be added to the LMRC website, www.lmrc-action.org.uk, but readers may wish to contact the official Parliamentary gramme will identify which sites — www.parliament.scot and / or www.parliament.uk . li nes w ould enc our age house-building, ease over- crowding on trains, and of- LMRC Contacts … … ℡ fer good value for money”. CLEAR Buckhaven, 36 College St., Buckhaven, This is Queensbury [Junction] Station; Great Northern Railway between KY8 1JY. - [Opposite Library and Council Offices] Bradford, Keighley and Halifax, West [Riding of] Yorkshire, on 6th. Sep- E-Mail: [email protected] ’Phone: 01592-713078 tember, 1964, two days after the Queen opened the Forth Road Bridge. Main Website : www.lmrc-action.or g.uk It closed to passengers in 1955, totally in 1963. The 2,501-yard (2,287m.) Facebook - www.facebook.com/ Queensbury Tunnel, just around the curve in the distance, has been the subject of a cycle-route bid in the last few years - but may yet be filled-in. levenmouth.railcampaign [ Details: Wikipedia — Image: Lt. Col. D. M. Anderson Collection. ] Produced by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH, Colinsburgh, From The Creator of ‘Brougham Hall News’. Fife, for the LevenMouth Rail Campaign. LMRC News - January 2018 - www.lmrc-action.org.uk Campaign The Levenmouth Rail Campaign Update 38 Newsletter February “Much More Than a Transport Project!” 2018 “A ‘Scandalous’ Number of Levenmouth and Glenrothes Areas’ Children Now in Poverty” ... PLEASE : Re-Open this Rail Link Soon -- for Next Generation!
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ONE OF The area’s MSPs has described the num- at Holyrood, when such a decision is made, will surely ber of Levenmouth children living in poverty as reap the benefits of Levenmouth being reconnected “scandalous” - and is likely to use their plight as one of once again with Edinburgh, and the rest of Britain, in the many reasons why the Levenmouth Rail Link really terms of votes and kudos here in Levenmouth! ought to be reinstated … and why the LevenMouth Rail 1,448 youngsters in the Buckhaven, Methil and Leven Campaign readily accept they are keeping up the “ward” alone are in poverty, the report by the End Child pressure knowing that they are “doing it for the kids”, the Poverty Coalition states. Fife Gingerbread, the Leven- next generation, who would appreciate the line’s revival. based childrens’ and lone-parents’ charity, are among Jenny Gilruth, MSP for Mid-Fife and Glenrothes those who know just how important it would be for (including Levenmouth), is already a prominent supporter the Levenmouth Rail Link to live again. Some of their of the LMRC; it was Jenny who called for that memora- representatives regularly attend meetings of the LMRC. ble Holyrood debate on the Rail Link in September. Rhona Cunningham, the charity C.E.O., told East Fife She was responding to a report in the East Fife Mail, Mail: “The figures are not a surprise. The people here last month, that “5,657 children in the constituency live in face a triple-whammy - poor opportunities, poor transport, poverty”. This report was compiled by the End Child Pov- and, perhaps, it’s unfair to say, low expectations. I think erty Coalition, and though they admitted ‘it is thought ’ they have come to accept their lot. The benefits system has people beaten. I have never seen things this bad. …” that many youngsters are poor (the newspaper stated), the fact anyone at all is in such a position just goes to I found this during my research - East Fife Mail website, 9 Jan., 2012 — show that something — particularly reopening the Rail Glenrothes MP Lindsay Roy said: “Child poverty overall in my area is 28%., Link — must be done to lift them, their families, and the but that frightening figure almost pales into insignificance […with the…] 40%. in Buckhaven, Methil and the Wemyss villages. It can only be described as Levenmouth area too of course, out of their predicament. shocking — that’s the sort of poverty you expected in Victorian times !! ” Apart from saying that Jenny Gilruth laid into the Westmin- ster Government and their policies, LMRC News keeps to the rule that ours is a ‘non- political’ campaign — with all due respect, it matters little who is in office when MSPs - or Transport Scotland - make this important decision. … … … —————————————————————————
“Pester Power”: In May 2016 LMRC News suggested that Above: Jenny Gilruth, (left), with David Torrance and children might apply pressure Humza Yousaf, the Transport (&. Islands) Minister, with of their own for the Rail Link. just part of the LMRC Petition at Holyrood on 1st. June. L.M.R.C. News TThhee CCRREEDDIIBBLLEE JJoouurrnneeyy CCoonnttiinnuueess …… ‘REINSTATE THE LEVEN-EDINBURGH RAIL-LINK NOW!’ LMRC Meetings A “Mountain to Climb” for
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Levenmouth Academy CRAG Meeting Soon in Edinburgh (Fife College Campus), Methilhaven Road, Buckhaven, Leven, (KY8 1EA) - at 6.30 p.m. WITH A Daunting Mix of Politics and Bureaucracy to surmount, it’s probably no coincidence how the Next: TUESDAY, 27th. February, 2018. Capital Rail Action Group got its name and initials. We know only too well in the LMRC, as others in cam- For Further Information Please see LMRC Contacts Below... paign groups everywhere know, that campaigning for reinstatement of old railways is something of a rather Image by : challenging, very craggy, “mountain to climb” !! Ken Haig. In fewer words we, and RailFuture Scotland (of course!) announce the next CRAG event ….. …. … .. .
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“Dear Railfuture Scotland member. … In case you are not yet aware of it, I would like to draw the “T attention of members to the following CRAG event: Therre’s ’s Notthiin’ ’ Holldiing g Me Back”!! * Thursday, 1st. March, 2018,
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LMRC Action Group Meeting Quaker Meeting House, — Tuesday, 27th. March, 6.30 p.m.; LMRC Action Group Meeting 7 Victoria Terrace, EDINBURGH, EH1 2JL.. — Tuesday, 24th. April, 6.30 p.m.; David Shirres, the Editor of Rail Engineer, will give a LMRC Action Group Meeting Presentation entitled “To [Re-]Open or Not to Re- — Tuesday, 29th. May, 6.30 p.m.. Open” - an Illustrated Talk on “What Makes a Good Rail Re-Opening Scheme ... and What Does Not”. Other Dates and Contact Details Below … … Other Meetings: Thursdays, 5th. April, and 3rd. May, CAMPAIGN CALL … . . . … Same Place … Same Time !
“LOBBY YOUR MSP!” SAY LMRC “I hope very much to see many of you once again in THE LMRC Appeals for everyone who wants the the coming months. Please also feel free to pass this Levenmouth Rail Link information on to any friends and colleagues who you back to write to their MSP or think might also be interested in coming along. … …” MP (or Councillor) right away. — The more you do, the more chance there will be for your long-lost - Lawrence Marshall, Capital Rail Action Group. rail-link to be reinstated in the near-future … . . . ! ‘Note To Bureaucrats’… Don’t Mull LMRC Contacts … … ℡ Over the Same Problem for Too Long CLEAR Buckhaven, 36 College St., Buckhaven, - You’ll only Get Bored with it ! … … KY8 1JY. - [Opposite Library and Council Offices] E-Mail: [email protected] ’Phone: 01592-713078 Sort Out an Issue, Move On, and then Main Website : www.lmrc-action.or g.uk … … … Achieve Something ! ! Facebook - www.facebook.com/ levenmouth.railcampaign — Alistair Aynscough, LMRC News’ Editor. Produced by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH, Colinsburgh, From The Creator of ‘Brougham Hall News’. Fife, for the LevenMouth Rail Campaign. LMRC News - February 2018 - www.lmrc-action.org.uk Campaign The Levenmouth Rail Campaign Update 39 Newsletter March “Much More Than a Transport Project!” 2018 Closure of 110-Year-Old Crossing Could Cause Chaos in Leven ... Will Iron Bridge ‘Block’ just Road-Block Town? Below - “Iron Brig”: A 3-tonne weight limit is in force on the railway (No. 18) and river bridges near the sawmill in Leven — which are set to close after being BIG CONFERENCE described as “uneconomic” to repair.
FOR LMRC NEXT 3 T m g w m g w MONTH … … … MSPs, MPs, Councillors, Rail Industry Experts, Campaigners - and The Public - Set to Attend Left: The Bridges across ————————– —————————————————-—————————————————— the Levenmouth Rail Link and River Leven, [ Friday, 27th. April, 2018, at the and, Right, a plaque reads: “The Brandon Fife Renewables Innovation Centre , Bridge Building Co. Ltd., Methil Docks, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.] Mo therwell, 1908”. Story: The Courier [Fife], Tues., 6th. February.: Story: Fife Free Press, Friday, 23rd. February.:
THE “IRON BRIG” Bridges in Leven, which have THE LEVENMOUTH Rail Campaign has organised a had a three-tonne weight restriction for several years, big conference to help maintain the pressure on railway are set for closure — bringing the prospect of yet more authorities and politicians to reinstate the Rail Link. traffic woes for Leven, and Levenmouth as a whole. It is now getting on for fifty years since passenger Cars and light vans would have to go via the Bawbee Bridge with the other, heavier traffic — adding to the con- trains last served the Levenmouth area, which, apart gestion they can presently ease by taking to the “Iron from Leven itself, also incorporates Methil, Buckhaven, Brig”. A popular cycleway and footpath would also be Kennoway, Windygates, the Wemyss villages, and much affected - LMRC News’ editor Alistair Aynscough often of the East Neuk of Fife. We would love to see as many uses the bridges when he is in Leven, or passing through people as possible from these rail-deprived communities ! this seaside town while on a ride out. Many more will be The Conference will open at 11 a.m. on Friday, 27th. effected, not least commuters who use the crossing as a April, at our ‘auld haunt’, the Fife Renewables Innovation direct route to or from their places of employment. Centre at Methil Docks, near Leven. After the dignitaries Officially known as the Leven Sawmill River Bridge have made their presentations, the second part of the (dated 1908), and Leven Sawmill Railway Bridge, these conference will form a workshop, in which people have very different spans might have had strengthening work the chance to share their views on how to get the Scot- done on them, but are now considered “uneconomic” for tish Government to back this vital scheme. either repair or replacement, and could shut within weeks. “It will bring together MSPs, MPs, councillors, rail Fife Council currently looks after and maintains 443 bridges industry experts, LMRC campaigners and members of and 281 retaining walls, which have a total replacement value of the public”, the campaigners say; “… to update on around £387 million. Ken Gourlay, the Council’s Head of Assets, the progress of the campaign and to discuss the steps Transportation and The Environment, said: “weight restrictions and other temporary measures on bridges have been a result of a to be taken to ensure the rail link is reinstated. Speak- ‘historic and persistent backlog of bridge-strengthening and ers confirmed at the event so far include rail expert David maintenance work beyond the scope of the money available’ ”. Shirres and Borders Rail campaigner David Parker.” L.M.R.C. News TThhee CCRREEDDIIBBLLEE JJoouurrnneeyy CCoonnttiinnuueess …… ‘REINSTATE THE LEVEN-EDINBURGH RAIL-LINK NOW!’ LMRC Meetings T HE C RI SI S AT B I F AB ‘Jobseekers with Plenty of Skills — But No Fast Commute’
Our MAIN PUBLIC [“Action Group”] MEETINGS are Held THE CRISIS at BiFab shows just how significant the LMRC Monthly - Except in Summer and December - at the … Conference will likely be in the bid to bring back the trains, with the company at risk of collapse for want of a decent order Fife College Campus it, and its many, highly-loyal employees, yearn for so greatly. All Levenmouth folks should now, perhaps, take a leaf out Methilhaven Road, Buckhaven, Leven, of their book, and show some of the determination in cam- (KY8 1EA; neighbouring Levenmouth Academy ) paigning for the Levenmouth Rail Link that the many BiFab workers clearly showed by working on when the company was 6.30 p.m., TUESDAY, 27th. March. in danger of insolvency, just before Christmas, as they hoped
to help save BiFab, let alone protect their own jobs. For Further Information Please see LMRC Contacts Below... We can only hope that work for them will come, and that there is little more to the threats of redundancy than the fear Image by : stoked by a legal requirement to send out redundancy letters. Ken Haig. The last thing Levenmouth needs is for such threats to become reality, especially if there are suddenly many new jobseekers here, with plenty of skills … but no fast commute ! Significant Media Coverage
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EFM, Rail Magazine - and TV - for LMRC AFTER SO Long Spent Trying, it now looks as though “Briing iit On Hom the LMRC is starting to make more of a “splash” with the ome [to Me]” * national media. This was discussed nearly a year ago, during the General Election campaign, with some mem- bers so concerned that the media were favouring national ♫♫♫♫ … tto Fife College Rooms ! ♫ * ‘Song-Title Arrows’: Sam Cooke (1962). rather than local issues, such as the Rail Link, that they ‘took action’, with LMRC posters, when a BBC film crew interviewed a local MP close to their stall in Leven High Later LMRC Meetings … Street. Later came ITV’s coverage of the Campaign on Wednesday, 27th. September - the day of the Holyrood LMRC Action Group Meeting debate - and then of the debate itself on BBC Parliament. Now, things have moved a few steps further. Following — Tuesday, 24th. April, 6.30 p.m.; a November morning spent by LMRC members sending LMRC Action Group Meeting copies of the new Campaign Booklet and other publicity items to various reporters around Scotland and farther — Tuesday, 29th. May, 6.30 p.m.; afield, the East Fife Mail - already a follower of the LMRC LMRC Action Group Meeting and its earlier forms over several years - formally declared its backing for our Campaign, and continues to publish — Tuesday, 26th. June, 6.30 p.m.; readers’ letters on the Rail Link … virtually all in favour ! The Courier and the Fife Free Press have also run with also: LMRC CONFERENCE various stories, such as the impending ‘Iron Brig’ closure and our Conference next month — stories included in this — Friday, 27th. April, 11.00 a.m., edition of LMRC News. The fortnightly Rail magazine gave us a four-page spread in mid-February, earning our at the Fife Renewables Innovation Centre, efforts some priceless publicity all around Britain, and, at Methil Docks, Leven, [to 2 p.m.]. the end of January, BBC Reporting Scotland had a feature on a budget deal at Holyrood — their top story that night. This FREE REGISTRATION for This Event — Visit … featured two members of the LMRC walking along the still- https://levenrailconference.eventbrite.co.uk remaining tracks behind the town’s largest supermarket — and were very glad of this publicity beamed all around Scotland, and For Other Dates and Details … … all around the world with the likes of the ‘BBC i-Player’! Whatever the Levenmouth public think of the new budget arrangements, they would at least have been heartened by the LMRC Contacts … … ℡ BBC’s political editor Brian Taylor’s comments on the railways’ future growth prospects. Then, we have been told there will be CLEAR Buckhaven, 36 College St., Buckhaven, yet more Scotland-wide TV coverage, with the Levenmouth Rail KY8 1JY. - [Opposite Library and Council Offices] Link set to feature on BBC-1 ’s “Mind The Gap: Are Scotland’s E-Mail: [email protected] ’Phone: 01592-713078 Railways Fit for The 21st. Century?”, on Monday, 26th. February Main Website : www.lmrc-action.or g.uk — We hope to cover this in LMRC News next time. - Until then, everyone, let’s just keep hoping and praying (not necessarily Facebook - www.facebook.com/ like the late evangelist Billy Graham!), reading and writing to the levenmouth.railcampaign media, and to MSP’s., MP’s., etc., and looking out for progress ! Produced by ALISTAIR AYNSCOUGH, Colinsburgh, From The Creator of ‘Brougham Hall News’. Fife, for the LevenMouth Rail Campaign. LMRC News - March 2018 - www.lmrc-action.org.uk Campaign The Levenmouth Rail Campaign Update 40 Newsletter April “Much More Than a Transport Project!” 2018 ‘I Walk The THE BIG Line!...’ CONFERENCE Grand Event to Involve Different Generations - FOR LMRC … Retracing the Tracks of
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THE YOUNG and the Young-at- [ Friday, 27th. April, 2018, at the Heart are being encouraged to band together, and help in the bid to Fife Renewables Innovation Centre , re-open the Levenmouth Rail Link. To make sure that they can Methil Docks, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.] get their feet on a train at either Leven or Cameron Bridge Station in the not-too-distant future — Fife Council “Committed” locals and anyone else are being invited to put their best feet for- to Levenmouth Rail Link
ward for a massed walk along the Story: Dundee Evening Telegraph, 5½-mile (9-kilometre) rail route. Saturday, 17th. March.:
Passenger Notice : FIFE COUNCIL have confirmed their commitment to reinstating the Levenmouth Rail Link. The local authority vowed just days ago that they would “do everything in [their] power to boost the bid, ‘Get on Track’ for following an appeal for support from LevenMouth Rail Campaign group members”. Monday, 23 April ! Fife Council co-leader David Alexander has, however, warned the campaigners, and everyone else with an interest in having the trains returning, that the case for reopening the line between Leven and Thornton must be A “Walk the Line” event has been arranged for “as robust as possible”. He added: “A sense of Monday, 23rd. April, and will involve local schools, entitlement to the rail connection ‘will get us nowhere’.” colleges and anyone else who want this absolutely Later this year Transport Scotland are due to vital transport connection to be reinstated. announce the funding allocations for various projects Further details of timings and other aspects of the around the country, and they are currently reviewing a day’s activities will be released very soon — and the report that contains all the latest information they could LevenMouth Rail Campaign would love you to come ever need on the proposed Levenmouth connection to the along!! It really should be worth the effort if as many outside world… We’re waiting for more than just trains… people as possible can come along and Walk This Line Eugene Clarke, chairman of the Levenmouth Rail later this month; the more the better as this really ought Campaign, said: “Reinstating the link to Thornton, which to make those at Transport Scotland and Network Rail, means having direct train services from Leven to MSP’s., Ministers, and everyone else in authority, sit up Edinburgh, has been described by rail experts as a and listen…, and watch…, or even take part themselves ‘no-brainer’. … … to help spread the word on this! Look out on Facebook, “It is technically straight-forward as the line — the newspapers, or other media, for announcements. … and all of the permissions — are already in place.” L.M.R.C. News TThhee CCRREEDDIIBBLLEE JJoouurrnneeyy CCoonnttiinnuueess …… ‘REINSTATE THE LEVEN-EDINBURGH RAIL-LINK NOW!’