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 […]
No doubt people will have seen in the local press and TV pictures of the chaos at Brighton Station last Saturday when following the successful Gay Pride day crowds of people were locked out of the station and missed trains home. Our rail company stated that the police closed the gates so that people could […]
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 […]
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 […]
At the AGM there were three senior managers from Govia Thameslink Railway who gave a Powerpoint presentation concerning the East Coast Railway route of which the Marsh Link forms a part. It shows why they have changed the timetable and options that were considered with some useful data from extensive surveys about passenger journeys along […]
Presentation of Southern Railway’s May 2018 timetable To the 2018 MLAG AGM Phil Hutchinson of GTR/ Southern was invited to speak to members at a meeting following MLAG’s Annual General Meeting. The main topic was Southern Railway’s May 2018 Timetable across the East Coastway – the services from Ashford to Eastbourne; Hastings/ Ore to Brighton; […]
Presentation of Southern’s May 2018 timetable This year, MarshLink Action Group’s Annual General Meeting will be held somewhat earlier in the year than usual – at 7pm on Tuesday 27th February at Rye Town Hall: as usual, the guest presentation will start at 7.15pm to enable train passengers arriving at Rye at 18:54 (hopefully) to […]
Another two days of “industrial action” has been announced by the RMT union affecting Southern Railways services on Friday 1st and Monday 4th September. Southern say they plan to run normal services on most of their routes (now, that would be unusual all by itself). But one of the routes expected to be affected is […]
Railfuture campaigns for electrification of the Uckfield line You may already be familiar with the report by former Virgin boss Chris Gibb to the DfT, published on 23 June, on “Changes to improve the performance of the Southern network and train services, and restore passenger confidence” and our website article http://www.railfuture.org.uk/article1744-Southern-could-be-buzzin two days later (which includes […]
re: Kent Area Route Study Consultation MarshLink Action Group (“MLAG”) responds below to the Study – our comments are limited to the MarshLink line proposals in the Study. We would like to thank the authors of the Study for their very well written documents and Network Rail for enabling Paul Best to visit us in […]