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RBWM responds positively to WLR petition

2017-08-01T09:37:28+00:00February 26th, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Last night, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council gave its response to the petition on WLR. It resolved: This Council: (a) notes the petition and the case made for the Windsor Link Railway, and (b) encourages the WLR team to engage fully in the planning policy processes, feeding into the emerging Borough Local Plan and Central Windsor Neighbourhood Plan, and looks forward to the further submissions and discussions in these regards with all relevant Members and Officers. George Bathurst, introducing the petition, [...]

RBWM council receives petition signatures

2017-06-01T21:08:54+00:00December 11th, 2013|Tags: , , |

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, [...]

Crossrail South

2017-06-01T21:11:51+00:00December 8th, 2013|Tags: , |

A big thank you to the guys at the Surrey Branch of Rail Future for their support and assistance. WLR gave a presentation there yesterday. Also presented at the same meeting was Crossrail South. This is a plan to extend the lines into Waterloo to connect up to the Charing Cross lines, enabling a whole host of new journey options to the East and the North. It is very similar in principle to the Windsor Link Railway because (a) it reduces the operational inefficiencies [...]

Windsor & Eton Society presentation slides

2017-06-01T21:19:45+00:00November 14th, 2013|Tags: , |

Earlier this week, the company gave a presentation to the RBWM Highways & Transport panel and today we gave a very similar presentation to the Windsor & Eton Society. It was gratifying today to see such a packed meeting and to get so many intelligent questions from many people who clearly care deeply about Windsor. As the projector couldn't show all the detail, some people have asked for a copy of the presentation. This was very similar for both meetings. To see it click [...]

This evening at RBWM

2013-11-12T08:04:59+00:00November 12th, 2013|Tags: , |

The Windsor Link Railway is on the agenda for this evening's meeting of the RBWM Highways and Transport Overview & Scrutiny Panel. This is being held at 6.30 pm in the Council Chamber in the Town Hall at Maidenhead. WLR will be publishing new information on the rail alignment and gradients for phase 1, enabling councillors to see the technical viability of the project. Update: See the meeting minutes and the WLR presentation.

WLR addressing Windsor & Eton Society

2013-10-31T11:44:01+00:00October 31st, 2013|Tags: , , |

WLR has been featured in this week's edition of the Windsor Express for its upcoming presentation to the Windsor & Eton Society. The other day, WLR met the Central Windsor Neighbourhood Plan group and they voted to support the project. This meeting continues WLR's consultations with local people as part of the company's plan of involving as many local people and groups as possible early in the design of the railway. If you can't make it, please do sign our petition online.

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