Slough & Windsor Railway Society
WLR spoke at the Slough & Windsor Railway Society last Friday. A big thank you to those who attended for the intelligent questions and for being such a kindly audience.
Pre-planning application submitted
The Windsor Link Railway has today reached an important milestone: it has submitted its vision statement and pre-planning application to RBWM. WLR hopes that the council will be able to respond as follows: At a full council level, responding to the petition previously submitted, by affirming support for and collaboration with WLR (policy ASF1 of the Royal Borough’s Local Transport Plan inter alia) As part of the emerging Borough Local Plan, as requested by the Central Windsor Neighbourhood Plan, to ensure provision is made [...]
Ice Experience supports WLR
Ice, a brand experience agency based in Windsor, supports the Windsor Link Railway. Geoff Knapp, Chairman, says: A good transport system is key to the economy and prosperity of any town and although Windsor is one of the UK's greatest historical towns our rail network unfortunately belongs to Victorian times. The Windsor Link railway will open the door to our economic future in the 21st Century and make the town more attractive and successful for the benefit of residents, businesses and tourists alike. As [...]
Is Slough’s tunnel to Heathrow off the rails?
In February 2013, the Thames Valley Local Economic Partnership announced, "Full steam ahead for the £500m western rail link to Heathrow." In October 2013, they trumpeted, "Final route for western rail access to Heathrow [WRAtH] to be announced by Christmas. Full steam ahead for the planned western rail access to Heathrow project with a major decision due by the end of the year [2013]." It's now February 2014 and there is still no sign of the preferred WRAtH option, at full steam or otherwise. [...]
A Windsor resident explains WLR
A Windsor resident, and member of the Windsor & Eton Society, has kindly written to RBWM about the Windsor Link Railway. WLR suspects that this explanation, including some FAQs, would be useful to many other people and so (with the writer's permission) these are reproduced there. Roy Edwards writes: Dear Councillor Kellaway On 17 November 2013 I emailed a few of my friends in Windsor a brief introduction to Windsor Councillor George Bathurst’s proposal to shut down Windsor’s two existing railway stations and build [...]
20,000 visits to the WLR website in 2013
According to Wordpress's Jetpack, the WLR website received 20,000 visitors in 2013. As plans are developed, to have such a well-read website will form an important part of the statutory obligation to consult and it already adds confidence that the proposals are not only of significant public interest but also well-received. Some of the highlights of 2013 were: Network Rail assessed phase 1 of the project (linking Slough to Waterloo via Windsor) and received the proposals positively On the basis of this, Network Rail [...]
Windsor Link on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning
The Windsor Link Railway was featured on the Andrew Peach show and BBC Radio Berkshire this morning. […]
WLR petition featured in Observer
The Windsor Observer has featured WLR submitting its petitions, with 1400 signatures combined, at the last full council meeting. Buy it in newsagents or see it online.
Steve Baker MP adds his support
Steve Baker, the MP for Wycombe, has added his support to the Windsor Link Railway, commenting: […]
RBWM council receives petition signatures
The full council of the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead received two petitions from WLR yesterday evening. The first was petitioning the council to do more to support the Windsor Link Railway. This received 1,020 signatures including 163 online. This will now be debated at the next full council meeting on 25 February 2014. The second petition was for the local council to look actively at ideas for improving the riverside area, parking and transport in Windsor, including those of the Windsor Link Railway Ltd, [...]