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The Peaks & Dales Rail Link Speeding through…… The Peaks & Dales Rail Link ……to a lower carbon future Hope Valley Line Manchester & East Midlands Rail Action Partnership Stephen Chaytow - 23 rd May 2019 Peaks & Dales Rail Link 1 Background to the 2018 Consortium Private money for a private re-opening as a private siding • Peak Rail proposes 25mph heritage plus community rail (light railway order) • Expanding quarries need new freight paths to grow, they wish to invest • Approach focused on lowering of build costs, new, shorter freight route • Major benefits for Hope Valley, South Yorkshire, Matlock branch users • Behind secrecy of quarry driven NDAs…. • Perceived limited benefit for East Midlands and inter-regional users • Led to MEMRAP formation in January 2019 © MEMRAP 2019 2 The Peaks and Dales Rail Link Project The case for FULL “Day 1” re-instatement • Conference focus is “Midlands Pure” – flavoured with this dash of “MEMRAP Inter-Regional” • “Full re-instatement” benefits rail users in 3 regions - East Midlands, North West, South Yorkshire • But, who owns The Peaks and Dales route? TfN or Midlands Connect? TfEM as umbrella? Peak District National Park Authority as quiet custodian • MEMRAP’s thought leadership and vision document caused TfN to seek: • A Strategic Outline Business Case • Evidence for Open Connectivity options © MEMRAP 2019 3 What’s the Problem? Capacity! Hope Valley – “Achilles Heel of the TfN Strategy” TfN - March 2019 Classic Victorian construction © MEMRAP 2019 4 Peak Forest & Buxton Quarries – A National Resource for Limestone, Aggregates, Cement via Hope Valley, mostly to the South Building HS2 Sizewell C Other projects starting in 2019 : EDF aims to build a new power 1. Lower Thames Crossing 2. A1(M) J6-8 Smart Motorway station with two UK-EPR reactors 3. Barking Riverside rail development located on land next to the 4. Channel Tunnel Interconnector current Sizewell B station in 5. Gatwick Airport Pier 6 Extension Suffolk. © MEMRAP 2019 5 Changing Fortunes of “The Peaks and Dales Rail Link” ”MEMRAP now seeks the return of rail between Matlock/Rowsley and Buxton/Chinley” 1902 1968 2004 2018 2030 ? • Inter-regional Open Connectivity • Local Heritage / community • Quarry outputs Consortium New Millers Decline, Beeching Scott – Wilson 1. Hope Valley full ! Strategic Dale Station Closure by feasibility 2. Studies show open Inter-regional Opened Barbara Castle & rejection by connectivity now an Link Serpell SRA option Restored 3. Peak Rail & Tarmac led consortium focused on private re-opening © MEMRAP 2019 6 A Latter Day Sleeping Beauty ? The Peaks and Dales Rail Link Note: All Derby/Leicester to Manchester journeys take much longer by road or rail than at the “peak” of the last rail era © MEMRAP 2019 7 Loughborough Design Undergraduate, “Peaks & Dales” Schematic interviewed on train to St Pancras – May 2019 “I live in Manchester and rail Hope Valley journey times (2 changes) to Liverpool & to Sheffield & LoughboroughChesterfield of well over 4 hoursToton & North West Erewash Valley are totally unacceptable.& Sheffield So, I driveNottingham in two and a half hours instead” Slow trains: Sheffield via Hope Valley Freight Missing 12 mile link Peak Rail Matlock Branch – to Main Line Main Line Marple Peak National Park New Mills Just 1 of the 5 million linked by this line Romiley Central Boundaries Chinley Darley East Midlands Monsal Trail Rowsley Dale Matlock Cromford Ambergate Belper Duffield Parkway Loughborough A Manchester Stockport Hazel Derby Leicester Grove Millers Longstone Bakewell Piccadilly Dale New Mills Newtown Chapel-en Buxton -le-Frith Manchester London Branch Buxton Branch to Hindlow, Burton & Airport Brierlow quarries Birmingham St Pancras (freight only) A Fast from Nottingham Heritage rail Freight only Via Sheffield Selected stations and quarries only. MEMRAP Passenger or Simplified, not to scale . Slow, via Hope Valley mixed© MEMRAPused line 2019 To re-instate 8 More Peaks & Dales Evidence 20 years of Passenger Growth In the East Midlands (EM): • Over last 15+ years: 250% • MML grew 130% but • 200% Hope Valley > 200% • 150% EM over next 10 years: • 10% population growth 100% • 30% usage increase 50% • 400,000 new EM homes 0% planned • Better rail links to aid academic and entrepreneurial collaboration Hope Valley Central Derbystation • feasibility) EM is a region of strong SheffieldStation Matlock BRANCH Belper&Duffield BRANCH economic growth Chinley & NewMills Nottingham Station 2041 projection (2004 • To increase prospects for EM BENCHMARK:Regional Derwent Valley BRANCH Buxton Whaleyvia Bridge franchise operator growth further, this key NW links 2016/7 % growth 2015/6 % growth Source: ORR data justifies attention and action © MEMRAP 2019 9 “The Peaks and Dales Rail Link” Quotes • "For regeneration of Metropolitan Manchester and the East Midlands Region, a catchment exceeding 5 million people, the Derby to Manchester rail route via Matlock represents a crucial missing link in this country's integrated national rail infrastructure“ Professor David Simon, Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg • “By delivering a new trans-Pennine rail route, a combination of private investment and heritage rail volunteers will create additional rail network capacity, increasing the potential for modal shift towards zero carbon transport and helping to slow climate change.” Chris Page, Chair of the National Board of Directors at Railfuture • The Peaks and Dales Rail Link offers greater potential than Borders Rail, re-instated in 2015. Planners should learn from the errors made when bringing that rail line back. © MEMRAP 2019 10 Reduced Future Flying Time – NOT Reduced Leisure Hours Bringing Local, Community and Heritage Rail to the Fore Question: Which national park is within 75 minutes journey for millions of people? © MEMRAP 2019 11 Peak District National Park • Peak District National Park Authority as trackbed custodians: • Welcome the Cycletrain as an alternative to car use • Seek with MEMRAP a sustainable and permanent route for the Monsal Trail • Electric cars arrive late, slow and expensively: • Fossil fuel emissions remain high, aggravating climate damage • The shift to public transport, as in Peaks and Dales, will mitigate • Derby University emissions study shows 150,000 kg CO2 saved: • Every time 38 trains switches from Hope Valley to Peaks & Dales or • When 100 annual commuters switch to train (Leicester to Manchester) Cycletrain Mockup Source: The Scotsman © MEMRAP 2019 12 Open Connectivity & Cycletrain From: Number of Passenger Journeys: Benefits Leicester, Derby, East Midlands SUBSTANTIAL – plus major shift from private car usage To: Manchester, North West and Manchester Airport SUBSTANTIAL INTER-REGIONAL ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT Route: DIRECT, via THE DERBYSHIRE DALES RAIL LINK Summary of Passenger Benefits: 1. Cycletrain, rambling, tourists Journey time: Derby to 2. Commuting and business travel Manchester under 75 minutes 3. Community and heritage rail MEMRAP East Midlands Regeneration © MEMRAP 2019 13 Open Connectivity & Cycletrain From: Number of Passenger Journeys: Benefits Leicester, Derby, East Midlands SUBSTANTIAL – plus major shift from private car usage To: Manchester, North West and Manchester Airport SUBSTANTIAL INTER-REGIONAL Consortium Benefits ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL Route: DIRECT, via THE BENEFITFrom: Peak Forest and Buxton Tonnage carried: DERBYSHIRE DALES RAIL LINK Quarries Up to 5m tonnes annually Summary of Passenger Benefits: Journey time: Derby to 1. Cycletrain,To: South rambling,of England tourists Construction Additional Benefits: Manchester under 75 minutes 2. CommutingProject Sites and business travel 1. Hope Valley paths to transform 3. Community and heritage rail passenger services East MidlandsRoute: DIRECT,Regeneration via THE 2. Matlock branch offers increased MEMRAP DERBYSHIRE DALES RAIL LINK frequency 3. Community and heritage rail – Journey: Fully loaded, southbound local services and empties return northbound 14 MEMRAP EastEast Midlands Midlands Regeneration Regeneration © MEMRAP 2019 14 Next Steps – The Sleeping Beauty Stirs? 1. Continue lobbying and awareness programme 2. Fund and complete Strategic Outline Business Case 3. RIDING SUNBEAMS to evaluate a zero carbon pilot, 2020 4. Lobby for inclusion The Peaks and Dales Rail Link in Midlands Connect Strategy Refresh, email contact and web address: [email protected] 2020/1 http://www.railusergroups.net/MEMRAP/index.htm 5. QUESTIONS!! © MEMRAP 2019 15.
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