Readers of Rye News will be all too aware of discussion of the service provided by Southern Railway – especially timetabling and reliability – over recent months. MarshLink Action Group (MLAG) exists to represent the views and interests of all users of the line. The timetable changes of May this year seemed a good opportunity […]
MLAG invited Southern Railway to an open meeting in Rye on 29 November to discuss the problems with the MarshLink service over recent weeks: this was arranged in association with Hastings and Rother Rail Users Alliance (“HRRUA” being the alliance of rail user groups along the line which has a regular dialogue with Southern). The […]
10 November 2018 Southern Railways invited to MLAG meeting on Thursday 29th November The MarshLink rail service has experienced some significant service failures over the last six months so MLAG has now invited Southern to Rye to discuss recent performance at a meeting. And to look to the future. MLAG (along […]
14 September 2018 At Amber Rudd’s Rail Summit today (Friday 14 September), Southern Railways announced the re-introduction from December of the MarshLink service arriving Ashford at 07.00. The loss of this service in the May 2018 timetable was high on the list of issues raised in MLAG’s passenger survey and was MLAG’s main issue to […]
In last week’s Rye News, MLAG drew attention to the difficulty, during a sunny weekend, to fit all of Rye’s train visitors onto 2-car units leaving many behind waiting for the next service an hour later. With two busy weekends coming up, we would like to advise you of some upcoming changes to the service. […]
Where do all the tourists go ……. Well, of course, they go home – eventually. But, first, they have to get here. And many of those tourists coming and going are doing so by rail. So, when they get home, how will they reflect on their trip to Rye ? MLAG has, again, looked at […]
28 June 2018 Southern’s services continue to fail Further to MLAG’s Press Release of 31 May, published in RyeNews on 1 June, we continue to have issues with the reliability of SouthernRailways service following the introduction of the new timetable on 20 May. The first service failure was on 31 May but it was […]
The Kent Route Study has been published The full study can be read by following this link. https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/South-East-Kent-route-study-interactive-version.pdf . Towards the end of the study is some very interesting information about possible changes to the MarshLink to enable through running of High Speed services to St Pancras. It seems that a target date of 2024 is feasible […]
Press Statement by Stuart Harland, MLAG Chairman An Opinion piece in last week’s Rye News (see http://www.ryenews.org.uk/opinions/what-do-we-do-about-southern ) raised a question about travel to the west of Rye – this makes a bit of a change from questions about the service to St.Pancras. In response, I said MLAG would endeavour to release articles on specific […]
The new timetable – the timing of Senior Railcard and Network Railcard services to St.Pancras As readers will be aware, Southern’s new rail timetable is due to come into effect on 20 May: MLAG will endeavour to release practical information about the new services running up to the start date. Several passengers have pointed out […]