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. […]
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. […]
The Windsor & Eton Express has featured our initial Windsor residents’ survey results. […]
Thank you to everybody who’s responded to our residents’ survey so far. A particular thank you to those who made the effort to post their responses by hand. The results show overwhelming support, with 95.2% of residents responding believing that the scheme is important to Windsor. […]
The Windsor residents’ pilot survey is now live. Please take part and tell us your views if you live or work in the Royal Borough. […]
The Windsor Link Railway strongly supports the rejuvenation of Maidenhead. The video above, released for the well-attended event held at Adobe last week, shows why it is so exciting for local businesses and residents. Maidenhead and the area around it is an economic powerhouse. Much of its success has been built on great connectivity to London. However, much of this is at or near to capacity, including both the fast rail lines to London and the M4, which threatens future growth. Crossrail will be [...]
In preparation for the Queen's jubilee people of Windsor and Eton, led by the Windsor and Eton Society, worked hard to give their town a 'facelift' improving the look of the town and restoring buildings to their former glory. Yesterday we saw some of the results of that work as the Earl of Wessex gave awards to the people behind some of the best restorations - a difficult task given that over 160 buildings took part. The Windsor and Eton society have very kindly [...]
Meet the new members of the WLR team. Richard Wickerson, who has helped the project for over three years now becomes our Corporate Development Director. He has great experience with structuring the finance of rail projects and continues to be invaluable to WLR. Paul Bayly also joins us having recently arrived from New Zealand. Also with a great deal of experience in the funding of infrastructure projects and his expertise will be particularly useful as we add more detail to the business case and [...]
Another local MP, The Right Hon. Michael Gove has joined his colleagues in supporting the Windsor Link Railway, saying... "Better rail services are important for the people of Surrey Heath. This is why I am encouraged to see proposals such as the Windsor Link Railway, which would make it easier to connect Farnborough, Camberley and Bagshot direct to Heathrow as well as to the Thames Valley." Other local MPs supporting WLR's proposals for better rail links for their towns include John Redwood and Phillip [...]
In it's first edition of the New Year, the Royal Borough Observer has published an article on the Windsor Link Railway. It's not on-line yet but click on the press cutting to read it.
