Rail update To state the obvious, things have changed dramatically over this year for railway operators and passengers. But, necessarily and intentionally, on the MarshLink itself, things have been reasonably quiet. But there are some issues to note: Covid-19 Covid-19 issues have to be at the top of all lists at the moment. At the […]
MLAG AGM The MarshLink Action Group (“MLAG”) normally holds its Annual General Meeting in March/ April each year – this is because in most years there are timetable updates to report (most particularly last year when there were major changes – see later related matter). On a technicality, this year the only change on the […]
Landslip at Wadhurst provides 4-car unit service on MarshLink There was a landslip on the line at Wadhurst, 13 March which resulted in the line between Robertsbridge and Tunbridge Wells being closed until today, Monday 18 March. SouthEastern laid on replacement buses and, of relevance to Rye train users, permitted travel along the MarshLink […]
Rail partnership brightens East Sussex station Rye railway station has just become even more interesting as a result of the partnership between Rye museum, Southern, and the Sussex Rail Community Partnership (‘SCRP’). The booking hall at the pretty East Sussex station now includes posters detailing some of the exhibits on display at the […]
MLAG has released two detailed reports on presentations to the MLAG Open Meeting on 29 November (so primarily aimed at those who were unable to attend the meeting): the first on Southern Railway’s presentation, the second on the results of MLAG’s survey immediately following May’s new timetable. Both of these have been placed on this […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]