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Onward to Hawick and Carlisle! CBR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM Join the Campaign Join CBR today from only £10! apply online at (2020 rate) SOURCE : When you join us you will: (Official use only) • receive our regular newsletters by post or email; campaignforbordersrail.org Madge’s message to • be able to participate in our projects and events, Copyright: VisitScotland / Airborne Lens, all rights reserved. fellow Borderers: including our autumn AGM; • add your voice to over a thousand other members “ If folk want their railway back, calling for the expansion of Borders Rail services. Onward to it’s up to them to fight for it!” We encourage you to apply online at: campaignforbordersrail.org Madge Elliot MBE, veteran rail campaigner from Hawick OR complete the form below to apply by post: Hawick and DECLARATION: “I apply to become a member of Campaign for Borders Rail. Dr Beeching’s worst cut I agree to support the aims of the Campaign and to uphold its good name. First slated for the axe Then, on 5th January 1969, I agree that CBR may store the personal data I provide for the purposes of administering my membership.” in 1963 by British Rail’s in a final act of defiance A copy of the Campaign constitution and data protection policy is available on Carlisle! infamous chairman, and after demonstations request. Members’ personal data held by CBR is never shared with any third Richard Beeching, the at Galashiels and Hawick, party. Membership rates are subject to annual review. Waverley Route ranks as protesters NAME: TELEPHONE: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: E-MAIL: the worst rail cut in British at Newcastleton obstructed IMPORTANT: A valid email address is required to allow us to administer your history, with Hawick and the very last passenger membership. If you do not have email, please let us know. Galashiels left further train for over two hours. Annual Membership: tick one To contact from a station We are £10 - Newsletter by e-mail CBR, see than anywhere proud to our website £15 - Newsletter by post* else of their size. count many for current details or join for only When closure veterans of Life Membership: write to was confirmed in the 1968/9 £150 - Newsletter by e-mail us at the 1968 it prompted protests £225 - Newsletter by post* address anger - and a last- amoung our * UK only. Overseas postal rates are £20 annual and £300 life. below. £10 ditch campaign members for a reprieve. today. Their DONATION (state amount): Led by Hawick efforts resident, Madge ensured that SIGNED: Elliot, a petition this cut was DATE: of 11,678-signatures not accepted was collected and like so many others, and Cheques payable to: ‘Campaign for Borders Rail’ personally delivered serve as an inspiration to Address: c/o Future Hawick, 2 Kirkwynd, Hawick, TD9 0AL to 10 Downing Street. campaigners today. OR make a bank transfer to: sort code 80-17-91, account no. 00119607 (initials and surname as reference). Images: Copyright Bruce McCartney © CBR 2020. Version 9. Printed by Richardson & Son Printers, Hawick, Scottish Borders. What is Campaign for Campaign for Borders Rail Borders Rail? A brighter future for your community! Founded in 1999, the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR) has been one of the most successful grassroots rail campaigns in Great Britain, a story of concerned citizens with an extended Borders Railway linking from all walks of life getting together to right the 1969 injustice of complete closure of the 98-mile Waverley Hawick and Carlisle Route through the Borders. With our initial goal secured - services on the rebuilt To Fife, Aberdeen, Perth 35-mile ‘Borders Railway’ from Edinburgh to Galashiels & Inverness and Tweedbank began on 6th September 2015 - CBR is now focussed on extension through Melrose, Newtown St To Glasgow Boswells and Hawick to Carlisle. EDINBURGH GALASHIELS MELROSE CBR is an independent community-based association. R R EOPENED Mid- An essential direct rail link -lothian A direct rail link to the hub of DATE: We do not represent any political party or commercial AMOUNT: Stations interest but seek to work with all bona-fide individuals with the South allowing the To London Borders tourism at Melrose whole of the Borders to meet 2015 + more visitors to other towns. and organisations who share our aims. Stow its full potential. Selkirk BUS LINK LATEST: Momentum builds Galashiels Direct connections to the Faster, greener and safer North West of England, PARK journeys - e.g. Hawick to & Manchester Airport and for rail extension Tweedbank RIDE Buoyed by the popularity of the new Borders Railway central Carlisle in 45 minutes! Kelso London. service - 4 million passenger journeys in the first three Melrose years including many more than forecast at Borders BUS LINK PARK stations - we believe that an extension of the line to & St Boswells RIDE BUS LINK Hawick and Carlisle would be viable. Support for a new cross-border rail link comes from NEWTOWN PARK Hawick & HAWICK RIDE ST BOSWELLS across the political spectrum and from both sides of LOSED 1969 1969 Jedburgh C C the border. With a joint UK and Scottish Government BUS LINK Better access to employment Langholm Better links to the Borders growth package for the Borderlands in preparation, Newcastleton and education for young BUS LINK Railway for Jedburgh the stage is set for a transformative investment that people, and more inward and Kelso from a hub at will secure a bright future for the whole region. investment creating new jobs. PARK Newtown St Boswells. & RIDE Longtown sign and print name) to (CBR rep We helped bring trains back to the Borders. To Glasgow OPEN FOR For Carlisle - a boost to FREIGHT Sustainable transport for Now we need your support to finish the business with a bigger labour timber from Kielder - getting job by extending the line from Tweedbank pool and customer base. CARLISLE log lorries off the roads. southwards through Hawick to Carlisle. To Newcastle Please join us today! To West Cumbria To Leeds To Manchester Follow us on Twitter & London SHANKEND @BordersRail Between Hawick and Longtown the map shows the original Waverley Route CARLISLE through Newcastleton that closed in 1969. An official study is expected to VIADUCT (state membership category and any donation) and any membership category (state Like us on Facebook recommend how best to serve Langholm. RECEIVED FROM: RECEIVED FOR: ON BEHALF OF CBR BY: RECEIVED facebook.com/campaignforbordersrail Images: geograph.org.uk © Walter Baxter, Ashley Dace RECEIPT------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------TEAR-OFF CBR representative by completion For.
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