A rail user group, the North Cheshire Rail User Group, supports and actively campaigns for an improved service at this station and for this railway line.
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There have been calls to reopen the station by the Ribble Valley Rail user group.Bolton News, "Full steam ahead for station campaign", 6 January 2009.
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A Normal service operates on most Bank Holidays. The North Cheshire Rail User Group, supports and actively campaigns for an improved service at this station and for this railway line.
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There is a rail user group for the station, Coaley Junction Action Committee (CoJAC), which, following the opening of the new station, continues as a group to press for improvements in the service.
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The service is operated by Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire and is supported financially by Cheshire County Council. Ince also has a few morning and evening journeys on service DB8 to Chester Business Park. Public transport in Ince is supported by the North Cheshire Rail User Group. It campaigns for better rail services and improved public transport interchange.
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The area has had upgraded signalling and a new connection to the Severn Valley Railway, enabling passenger trains to access the branch in both directions. Electrification of the route is an aspiration of Network Rail and the local rail user group. A service to/from NR metals to Bewdley has also been proposed over the years. This is finally seeing some more local interest.
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"Friends of The Barton Line – Current Issues" Barton Line Rail User Group; Retrieved 30 April 2014 Network Rail are planning to re- signal the line in 2015–16, with control passing to the York Rail Operating Centre – the level crossings on the line will then be automated and the existing signal box at Ulceby Junction abolished (those at Goxhill, Barrow Road and Oxmarsh Crossing will remain).
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The York to service that previously stopped here all week now only does so on Sundays, which has led to complaints from the local rail user group with regard to the reduction in service levels.December timetable update Waring, J.S; "HADRAG" website article; Retrieved 18 December 2019 Sundays see an hourly service each way, provided by the York to Blackpool North trains as noted above. There are no direct trains to Manchester - travellers must change at Hebden Bridge.
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In 1941, Beal was one of the few stations to remain open during the period of the Second World War, the others being Alnmouth, Chathill, Tweedmouth and Belford. The goods warehouse was demolished sometime after British Rail formed. The station closed on 29 January 1968. The local rail user group SENRUG has been campaigning since September 2016 to have local services on the Newcastle - Berwick - Edinburgh corridor increased with regular local commuter services extended northwards from to and Edinburgh.
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Fares on the Johannesburg/Pretoria route vary according to the peak, shoulder peak and off-peak times, depending on distance. The fare on the Gautrain Bus Link for a rail user varies from is R9 during peak and R2 during off-peak times; for the midibuses, the fare is a standard R10 per trip. The method of payment on Gautrain buses uses the same personalized electronic ticket as for train travel, requiring a minimum balance of R20.00 for boarding a bus. To board the midibuses, tickets are bought at the midibus counter at the station.
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The station opened on 9 July 1894 as part of the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway and was originally called "Leyton".Barking to Gospel Oak Rail User Group - A Short History of the Line On 17 August 1915, three explosive bombs from the German Zeppelin L.10 landed on or near the station, destroying the ticket office, a billiard hall in the arches under the platform and damaging several houses nearby. Four people were killed.London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace, Ian Castle, Christa Hook, Osprey Publishing 2008, p.
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Melksham Railway Development Group formed in 1995, to promote Melksham Station and train journeys to and from Melksham. The group supported "Save the Train" and the TransWilts CRP over the years but has remained independent, running at least one special event every year. In 2015, the group was renamed the Melksham Rail User Group as with the success of their and other campaigns, passengers are now using the trains in greater numbers. The "Save The Train" group was launched in 2005, to raise public awareness that services along the TransWilts Line were being reduced.
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These had all been removed by the early 1970s (the signal box being the last to go in 1972). The station building (built in 1955/56 after the original Midland structure was demolished by British Railways) is now privately owned,Bairstow, p. 9 the station having been reduced to unstaffed halt status in October 1970.A Brief History of Bentham StationFriends of Bentham Station; Retrieved 4 December 2013 It has had its own community volunteer support group (The Friends of Bentham Station) since September 2011, which is based in the aforementioned building on the eastbound platform and has support from various local organisations (such as the route's Rail User Group, Craven District Council & the Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe Line Community Rail Partnership).
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During the Rail Priority Conference organised by the West of England Partnership in November 2011, delegates travelled on the Portishead line, the Severn Beach line and the Henbury Loop, using sections of track not currently used for passenger traffic. In early 2012, during the consultation phase for the new Great Western rail franchise, Bristol City Council and local rail user groups launched Bristol Metro 2013 to ask bidders to incorporate metro plans into their bids. Bristol MPs were lobbied in Westminster by Dawn Primarolo (MP for Bristol South) and Steve Webb (former MP for Yate). The Saltford Station Campaign Group and Bath and North East Somerset Council suggested in April 2012 that the reopening of Saltford station could be part funded by means other than those included in the West of England Partnership's report.
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Community rail in Britain is the support of railway lines and stations by local organisations, usually through community rail partnerships (CRPs) comprising railway operators, local councils, and other community organisations, and rail user groups (RUGs). Community railways are managed to fit local circumstances recognising the need to increase revenue, reduce costs, increase community involvement and support social and economic development. The Community Rail Network (CRN) supports its fifty or so member CRPs and also offers assistance to voluntary station friends groups that support their local stations through the station adoption scheme. Since 2005 the Department for Transport has formally designated a number of railway lines as community rail schemes in order to recognise the need for different, more appropriate standards than are applied to main line railway routes, and therefore make them more cost effective.
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Originally built as a double-track main line, with through links to destinations including , , and London Euston, it was reduced to a single line branch in May 1973 when the West Coast Main Line (which it joins at Oxenholme) was re-signalled & electrified.Lakes Line Rail User Group – Line History Retrieved 12 March 2014 Freight traffic to the last active depot at had previously ceased in 1972. There are no passing loops or sidings on the route, which is operated under "One Train Working with Train Staff" regulations, with only one train allowed on the line at any time. Entry to and exit from the branch is controlled by the signalling centre at and before a service can proceed beyond the branch platform at Oxenholme, the driver must collect the train staff from a cabinet on the platform, which is electrically released by the Carlisle signaller.
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Tory!. In August 2006 he told Andy Beckett who interviewed Harris for his book "When the lights went out – Britain in the 1970s" that he voted Labour twice at the two General Elections in 1974 because he was angry at Heath's U-turn of 1972, his inability to stand up to the miners, and because if you voted Labour at least you knew what you were getting.When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (London: Faber & Faber, 2009) A pipe smoker, he was a chairman of smokers' rights campaigners, FOREST, and its president in 2003. He was not convinced that passive smoking was dangerous and published and campaigned against the banning of smoking on trains from Brighton to Victoria station in 1995, although he admitted that he was not a frequent rail user himself. Harris died suddenly of an ruptured aortic aneurysm at his home in North London on the morning of 19 October 2006.
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