BEP: July 13, 2010 At a recent meeting, Bristol City Council went ahead with a £48 million bendy bus scheme despite Government warnings that the money may not be there. You could understand if the money was for the reopening...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on July 14, 2010 03:05 PM
BEP: 28th May 2010 MEMBERS of the community who have helped improve the Severn Beach rail line were rewarded for their efforts at an awards ceremony....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on June 1, 2010 05:11 PM
BEP: 24th May 2010 RAIL campaigners celebrated the launch of a new Sunday service on the Severn Beach line – with a picnic and a game of rounders....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on May 25, 2010 06:00 PM
RMT General Secretary, Bob Crow was a guest of Bristol Rail Branch on Wednesday 28th October to present awards to RMT members who reached 40, 25 and 10 years of union membership this year. Dave Rowe, a Network Rail infrastructure...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on November 1, 2009 08:00 PM
BBC News: 1 September 2009 Network Rail has released a draft 10-year strategy for developing railways across the Great Western network. The strategy will work on plans to electrify more railway lines...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on September 1, 2009 06:49 PM
Bristol Evening Post: October 28, 2008 Rail campaigners have called for more spending on local trains in greater Bristol, including Portishead and Henbury....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on October 28, 2008 05:37 PM
Western Daily Press: 15 December 2007 BRIAN PRICE, TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT Union chiefs and MPs have backed a motion calling on the Government to intervene to protect passengers hit for the second year running by overcrowding and delays to rail services...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on December 15, 2007 01:10 PM
Bristol Evening Post: 17 February 2007 A Property expert claims plans for showcase bus routes will not solve Bristol's traffic problems....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 17, 2007 12:18 PM
BBC News: 26 January 2007 Bristol City Council has decided to reinstate the subsidy for the Severn Beach Line after axing it one year ago. The money will pay for an extra train to run every 30-50 minutes To read...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 27, 2007 03:15 PM
Clevedon Mercury: 25 January 2007 Land taken out of the Green Belt at Portbury could get the Portishead Railway project back on track, according to one campaigner....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 27, 2007 11:04 AM
Bristol Evening Post: 23 January 2007 A petition demanding better train services in Bristol has been set up on the Prime Minister's website....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 23, 2007 11:34 PM
Bristol Evening Post: 20 January 2007 Rail campaigners called for improved train services at a meeting near Temple Meads station....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 21, 2007 10:51 PM
Bristol Evening Post: 16 January 2007 Bristol's ruling councillors have been accused of hypocrisy over their stance on the row about the city's suburban railways....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 17, 2007 06:50 PM
Bristol Evening Post: 12 January 2007 Rail protesters demonstrated outside Bristol's Council House and called on the city council's ruling cabinet to ensure a half-hourly train service to Severn Beach....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 13, 2007 09:41 AM
RMT: January 8 2007 Britain’s largest rail union RMT today called on the government to end the scandal of hazardous overcrowding on train services run by First Great Western in Bristol, the west of England and south Wales by releasing...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 9, 2007 02:13 PM
Please support Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways in lobbying Bristol City Council at the Council House, College Green on Thursday 11 January 2007, from 5.30 - 6 pm....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on January 7, 2007 01:04 PM
FOSBR: 15th Dec 06 Friends of Suburban Bristol Rail's "Half Hour Train Campaign" aims to get Bristol City Council to put approximately £450,000 in their 2006/7 budget to subsidise a half-hourly rail service from Temple Meads to Avonmouth. Here are...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on December 15, 2006 06:33 PM
Bath Chronicle: 14 December 2006 c.foster@bathchron Timetable changes are causing chaos for rail commuters travelling in and out of Bath....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on December 15, 2006 02:51 PM
RMT: December 5 2006 CAMPAIGNERS AGAINST massive cuts to rail services in Bristol and the west will be on the march on Friday, December 8, to protest against plans which will increase rail overcrowding and force passengers off the rails...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on December 8, 2006 05:05 AM
Press Association: 01/03/2006 MPs have today condemned a decision by Bristol City Council to recommend cutting the £138,000 rail support grant which they claim threatens the Severn Beach railway forcing many more people onto an already overstretched road network. Severn...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on March 1, 2006 10:46 PM
Bristol Evenng Post: 28 February 2006 A Top Bristol cabinet councillor has insisted that the Severn Beach rail line is not under threat - despite the city council axing a £136,000 subsidy to help pay for hourly train services....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 28, 2006 10:38 PM
Early Day Motion 1702: 27:2:06 EDM 1702 'Cuts in Local Rail Funding for the Severn Beach Line', which was put down on Monday 27 February already on its first day attracted the signatures of 12 MPs. An Early Day Motion...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 28, 2006 09:35 AM
Bristol Evening Post: 27 February 2006 Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy has joined a campaign to save the Severn Beach railway line....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 27, 2006 06:48 PM
RMT: February 26 2006 Union to lobby Tuesday's council budget meeting from 14:00 on Tuesday, February 28 Britain's biggest rail union today called on Bristol city council not to pull the plug on the city's Severn Beach rail line....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 27, 2006 11:13 AM
Press Association: 26 Feb 2006 By Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent Union leaders today pledged to campaign against a plan to cut funding for a regional rail line....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 27, 2006 10:26 AM
BBC News: 24 February 2006 Rail campaigners are celebrating a decision to continue to fund a half-hourly rail service between Bath and Filton Abbey Wood....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on February 25, 2006 01:44 AM
The Times: October 07, 2005 By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent TRACKS on branch railway lines are to be torn up and replaced with concrete channels, under plans to attract people out of cars by replacing trains with buses....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on October 12, 2005 04:01 PM
Sustrans: July 23, 2005 Get fit and see the countryside at the same time. The 10,000th mile of the National Cycle Network is due to be opened in September, which means thereare even more bike routes in the UK which...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on August 6, 2005 04:50 PM
Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FOSBR): aspirations for the Greater Western Rail Franchise....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on June 17, 2005 06:29 AM
TAKING THE railways back into public ownership, ending the London Underground PPP and asking big business to pay towards the cost of transport could usher in a golden age for public transport....
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on June 2, 2005 07:02 PM
Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways campaigns to: * Defend services on the Severn Beach Railway; * Restore passenger services to Portishead, Pill, and Ashton; Chittening, Hallen, Henbury; Horfield and Ashley Down; * Increase services to Pilning, Patchway, Stapleton Road Lawrence...
Posted in National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers (RMT) on June 1, 2005 07:59 AM
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