by Will Frecknall | 17 Sep 2017 | News
The Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway Company was sanctioned by Parliament in 1846. However, work did not start until 1850 and eventually, the railway was opened to a terminus at Hereford Barrs Court in 1853. Initially, it was operated by the West Midlands Railway...
by Will Frecknall | 12 Sep 2017 | News
Herefordshire Green Network are providing an opportunity for all us who are concerned about the decline of local bus services and find out more and hear about the opportunities to develop a more sustainable long term transport solution for Hereford. Local experts Anna...
by Will Frecknall | 30 Aug 2017 | News
Despite help from Rail & bus for Herefordshire with publicity and a small core of regular passengers, I and S Coaches have not been able to sustain this service commercially. The service ceased on 29 September 2017.
by Will Frecknall | 30 Aug 2017 | News
Just a reminder that from the week beginning 4th September some bus timetables for Herefordshire will change. The biggest changes will be in the Ledbury Area where new timetables and a new operator will apply to service 417 Ledbury-Worcester; 600 Ledbury Town service;...
by Will Frecknall | 18 Aug 2017 | News
Leominster station was once described as the grand junction of the Marches. It once comprised four platforms, two on the main north and west line and two that served the branch line trains that ran eastwards to Bromyard and Worcester and westwards to Kington. There...
by Will Frecknall | 18 Aug 2017 | News
The BBC Wales headlines summed it up…’£1bn funding row puts new rail franchise in jeopardy’. It is a row that has been brewing for quite a while and now has erupted into cross border warfare. The Wales & Borders Franchise was due to be fully devolved to the Welsh...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
HS2 for the Super Rich For the Rest of Us (As sent in by an RBfH member correspondent)
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
Worcestershire County Council has published their Rail Investment Strategy which documents a vision of the development of rail services as part of their Local Transport Plan 4. As to be expected the plan concentrates on an improved London service via the Cotswold Line...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
FirstBus, operating as First Worcester, has returned to Herefordshire. The operator who withdrew from Hereford City and closed their garage there in 2015, has won a number of Herefordshire Council contracts in the Ledbury Area. From September they will be taking over...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
London Midland has lost the West Midlands Rail Franchise. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that the new franchise has been awarded to a joint venture between Abellio (Netherlands Rail) and Japanese partners (East Japan Rail & Mitsui). This is the...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
1 Daily Telegraph published news that ‘Whitehall backlogs have caused the Government to miss its own deadline for awarding a major rail contract (West Midlands Franchise)’. Later reports indicate that London Midland have been given yet another extension although...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | Newsletters
Keeping you informed about your rail and bus services, here is the Summer 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 Summer 2017 Download a PDF...
by Will Frecknall | 24 Apr 2017 | News
Our previous chairman Professor Les Lumsdon is closely involved in developing an innovative railway based walking trail. Following a feasibility study, the go-ahead has been given for implementing this new exciting project. Trail in the Making will start in the old...
by Will Frecknall | 24 Apr 2017 | News
Most of you will have seen and or experienced the mighty upheaval outside Barrs Court Station as contractors drive through the Hereford City Link road as part of Herefordshire Council’s all singing, all dancing roads policy to help solve Hereford’s transport problem....
by Will Frecknall | 24 Apr 2017 | News
On 14 September, and with my RBfH hat on, I attended a seminar at the House of Commons entitled ‘The Impact of Congestion on Bus Passengers’. It was chaired by Louise Ellman MP and Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, gave a short...
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