News coming soon on the Windsor Link Railway
Listen in for breakfast as BBC Radio Berkshire talks about the Windsor Link Railway between 7 and 8.30 on Friday. Also look out for us in the Windsor Express and Windsor Observer.
Edmund Burke on what’s wrong with our railways today
Edmund Burke, the eighteenth century philosopher and parliamentarian, once famously said that no man should be a judge in his own cause. It is remarkable that words written before the railways or the first steam engine were built, should be relevant to the problems of our transport today. However, being a judge in his own cause is exactly the unfortunate position that the Secretary of State for transport finds himself in. The Department for Transport is both the promoter of new rail schemes, such [...]
Heathrow Terminal 2
Congratulations to Heathrow Airport, which this week passed a major milestone in the construction of terminal 2. The new terminal is on schedule to open next year with a capacity of 20 million passengers per annum. The Windsor Link Railway will make this important new infrastructure easily accessible to many more people […]
Rail Improvment Conference
The Windsor Link Railway will be represented at the Rail Improvement Conference. […]
Rail liberalisation debated in Europe
This cheesy video aside, the EU Commission is doing good work to liberalise the European rail industry. At the beginning of this year, they announced long-awaited proposals for the 4th Railway Package. Despite the unimaginative name, the proposals could lead to dramatic changes in the industry, such as removing factors hampering competition and preclude the restructuring of the railway sector and improvements of rail service quality and efficiency. They've been supported in this by Robert Zile, the ECR spokesman in the European Parliament Transport [...]
House prices near Crossrail ‘to rise by 40%’
The Telegraph reports: Property prices within a 10-minute walk of central London Crossrail stations have risen by more than 30% since the project was announced in 2008. The growth in values was 8% greater than wider improvements for central London, according to a study by estate agent Knight Frank. […]
Rail Privatisation
Christian Wolmar and Tony Lodge debate rail privatisation on the BBC. WLR’s view is that the argument should not be a sterile one between full nationalisation and the partial nationalisation that is the current franchise system. […]
Windsor residents’ survey final results
The final results for the Windsor residents’ survey has shown overwhelming support for its proposals, with 95% of Windsor residents agreeing that it is important to Windsor and 92% petitioning the council to look actively at the ideas. […]
Mrs Thatcher and the Jubilee Line Extension
With the sad death of Baroness Thatcher it is worth remembering the support she gave the creators of Canary Wharf, Olympia & York – without this it is likely the regeneration project of those former docks would not have been so much of a success. […]
Windsor & Eton Express features WLR
The Windsor & Eton Express has featured our initial Windsor residents’ survey results. […]