by Will Frecknall | 10 Apr 2018 | Newsletters
Keeping you informed about your rail and bus services, here is the Spring 2018 Rail & Bus for Herefordshire newsletter. You can view online or click the link below to download a PDF copy that you can print. Newsletter-Spring-2018.compressed Download a PDF...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Feb 2018 | Newsletters
Keeping you informed about your rail and bus services, here is the Autumn 2017 Rail & Bus for Herefordshire newsletter. You can view online or click the link below to download a PDF copy that you can print. Newsletter-Autumn-2017.compressed Download a PDF...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
The Omnibus Society Bulletin for South Wales and the West carried this sad heading for dramatic bus service withdrawals….24th July 2017 This date will no doubt go down in history as the day the rural bus was withdrawn from Dorset. Herefordshire survives far better...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
Transport is dynamic; it runs through the core economic and social fabric of this country. It gives us lessons from the past, the challenges of the present and the importance of developments for the future. With this in mind Rail & Bus for Herefordshire is a...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
The next Great Western Franchise is due to run from autumn 2020. However, the Department for Transport consider that the specification and award of a new franchise could be delayed for two years until 2020. The Department has entered into a consultation exercise...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
The latest phasing report on HS2 deals with Crewe station where capacity problems are foreseen when HS2 comes whizzing in. The DfT report states: The Phase 2a high speed line connects to the WCML south of Crewe via two spur lines. Some modifications will be required...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
Hereford has been the terminus for through inter-city trains to/from London for many years since the days of the original Great Western Railway. Perhaps the most famous train was the Cathedrals Express, where one could get a civilised breakfast! However, over the last...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Dec 2017 | News
The Department for Transport spin doctors obviously had the Christmas spirit in them when they gave the Transport Minister a bag of rail goodies to announce. Reopening railway lines and stations and hints of measures to transfer more freight from road to rail were the...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Dec 2017 | News
Whilst on the subject of government, the DfT has published a series of guidance documents relating to the creation of advanced quality bus partnerships and how local authorities can establish franchise schemes. The aim is to bring more stability into the provision of...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Dec 2017 | News
In a surprise announcement, Arriva Trains UK Ltd (of which Arriva Trains Wales is a subsidiary) announced it was pulling out of the bid process for the next Wales & Borders Franchise due to begin in late 2018. An email from the Arriva Trains bid team to the...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Dec 2017 | News
They say a new broom sweeps clean. Let us hope so for Herefordshire passengers on the Birmingham service, with the new operator West Midlands Trains (alias Abellio) due to start on 10 December 2017. Rail & Bus has yet to make contact with West Midlands Trains but...
by Will Frecknall | 17 Sep 2017 | News
Your chairman, Gareth Calan Davies, will be running a WEA course in Hereford on the Development of Standard Gauge Railways in South Wales & the Borders. As a transport geographer Gareth has a keen interest in the development of railways as part of the economic and...
by Will Frecknall | 17 Sep 2017 | News
This pre-election extract from the magazine Private Eye is most telling in view of the political and financial wrangling taking place over the Wales & Borders franchise which includes the Marches line through Herefordshire. Received from a member correspondent 14...
by Will Frecknall | 17 Sep 2017 | News
The launch of the northern end of the trail from Craven Arms to Knighton could not have expressed so effectively the widespread support for the project. Over 65 people attended the opening session at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre (which has a superb exhibition...
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