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Theresa May MP adds her support

2013-07-19T11:47:07+00:00July 19th, 2013|Tags: , |

Theresa May, the MP for Maidenhead, has added her support for the Windsor Link Railway. She says: Good train services from Maidenhead and Twyford to London are crucial, both for commuters who live in the local area and for local businesses. That’s why I welcome proposals from the Windsor Link Railway company, which could potentially provide much quicker journey times to south London and Waterloo. These have the additional advantage of being privately-led, reducing the burden on taxpayers as well as offering a new [...]

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WLR could save the taxpayer £1 billion

2013-06-21T09:56:34+00:00June 21st, 2013|Tags: , , |

The TaxPayers' Alliance features the WLR. It says: The Government has recently set aside £500 million to build a rail link between Heathrow and The West and is likely to agree a similar figure for a line running south from Heathrow. But Windsor Link Railway, a private company, is competing to build the route and for a fraction of the cost. It is proposing the first wholly privately funded new rail line in over 100 years. [More...]

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Edmund Burke on what’s wrong with our railways today

2017-06-23T15:51:43+00:00June 19th, 2013|Tags: , , |

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 [...]

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House prices near Crossrail ‘to rise by 40%’

2013-05-03T14:41:37+00:00May 3rd, 2013|Tags: , , , , |

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. […]

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