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.
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. […]
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 & Eton Express features WLR
The Windsor & Eton Express has featured our initial Windsor residents’ survey results. […]
Manchester United
The Economist has published an article on the Northern Hub, in Manchester. This is how it starts. FOR £33 billion and a 20-year wait, Britain is to get a high-speed rail line connecting London to the north of England. For £32 billion-odd less than that sum, it gets the Northern Hub. Far less controversial or glamorous — the funding process was a bit like a church-roof appeal at first, says Chris Fletcher of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce — the project is a terrific [...]
The Windsor Facelift
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 [...]
See us in the Royal Borough Observer
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.
See us in Modern Railways
The Windsor Link Railway is featured in the latest issues of Modern Railways (£). The article focusses on solutions for a western rail link to Heathrow, one of which is the Windsor Link and the other is Wandsworth's proposal for 'Airtrack Lite' (£). These two proposals dovetail very well and are mutually supportive. The Windsor Link Railway is also pleased to see the Mayor of London supporting Wandsworth's proposals.