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WLR in Modern Railways

The Windsor Link Railway has been featured in Modern Railways magazine. This would make rail a more attractive option for visiting Windsor from the capital. At present, the town is in danger of being strangled by the traffic problems presented by the seven million visitors that come each year to see the castle and other attractions. Tourist coaches, in particular, are a nuisance: they line up in serried ranks in a coach park alongside the Great Western viaduct. On my visit, one of the [...]

2018-09-28T07:13:28+00:00September 27th, 2018|Tags: , , , , , , |
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New Civil Engineer: WLR selected for Heathrow park-n-ride

The Windsor Link Railway has been selected by Heathrow as one of its potential ‘innovation partners’. New Civil Engineer writes: The four ideas submitted by WLR include an ambitious plan to purchase the proposed southern rail line from Network Rail to incorporate pods and autonomous vehicles on it. Proposals for an enhanced park and ride in either Windsor or Slough, a dedicated check in facility for the airport in Windsor and the reopening of a freight line to Staines have also been tabled by [...]

2018-09-24T07:00:20+00:00September 24th, 2018|Tags: , , |
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Britain’s Golden Age of Rail Starts in Windsor – Reaction

UK politics website, Reaction, features WLR. Britain’s rail buccaneers are back, and hopefully soon in business. Ambitious plans for the first privately-funded railway line to be built in Britain since the First World War will tonight (Tuesday) be submitted to the government for approval. It’s taken seven years of blood, sweat and tears but engineer, George Bathurst, has finally won his battle to put forward his proposals for a new £1bn project – the Windsor Rail Link – to the Transport department. The proposed [...]

2018-08-01T07:42:50+00:00August 1st, 2018|Tags: |
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New Civil Engineer features WLR ‘Market-Led Proposal’

The Windsor Link Railway has been featured in New Civil Engineer magazine. WLR is responding to the government's call for Market-Led Proposals and submitting a bid by the deadline of 31 July 2018. This will cut the cost of links to Heathrow by half and be self-funded, reducing ticket prices as well as making non-Heathrow journeys easier. Article PDF

2018-07-26T14:06:27+00:00July 26th, 2018|Tags: |
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New Civil Engineer reports on WLR’s ‘two-for-one’ solution for Heathrow

New Civil Engineer magazine reports (£) on WLR's two-for-the-price-of-one proposal, combining works from west and south of the airport. Windsor Link Railway (WLR) has put forward a proposal to roll the WRLtH and SRLtH schemes into one, dramatically reducing the cost of the works estimated at £2.3bn by Network Rail. WLR managing director George Bathurst told New Civil Engineer how its proposal to link up sections of existing track could cut the combined price tag of both projects in half. “We’ll be bidding to [...]

2018-05-15T14:11:46+00:00May 15th, 2018|Tags: , , , |
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Telegraph reports on Windsor link to Heathrow

The Daily Telegraph reports today: Five bidders are in the running to build the first railway line under new government proposals aiming to fund new tracks entirely with private cash… Bidders were invited to submit proposals in March as part of plans by ministers to inject extra cash into the railways. Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, has been vocal about his desire for rail access to Heathrow from the south, as improved transport links bolster the argument in favour of the third runway expansion [...]

2018-05-15T10:37:02+00:00May 14th, 2018|Tags: , , |
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