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 […]
The new timetable On Sunday 20th May Southern Railways and Southeastern Railways will bring into effect the most comprehensive changes to rail timetables in decades. These changes follow Southern’s series of public consultations started in 2016 and meetings they have held over the intervening period with rail user groups from across the MarshLink: their objective […]
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 […]
MLAG does not wish to be an apologist for Southern but Opinion can be more informative without too much hyperbole. I appreciate the Southern service, now or as planned post-May, could be better for every individual but rail is a mass transit system and individual needs cannot be catered for. The post-May service will be […]
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 […]
PRESS RELEASE – 1 March 2018 Southern Railway made a presentation to members and the public following the MarshLink Action Group Annual General Meeting on 27 February. The presentation was about changes in Southern’s services across the Eastern Coastway but, for our purposes, mostly about the MarshLink services to Brighton. Details of the service changes […]