Background - Suffolk · 2017-11-21 · Growth since the Beccles Loop Background 49 miles / two...
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Background
49 miles / two tracks
British Rail cost cutting 1985 / 28 miles singled
Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB) system
Vision: nothing more than two-hourly service ever needed
Infrastructure now fits the vision (or lack thereof)
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Background
Service not convenient / Push for an hourly service
2008 Feasibility Study
2010 Hourly service Southern half
2013 RETB radio licenses to permanently expire
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Background
Beccles Loopopens December 2012
New signalling systemcommissioned at thesame time
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Promoting the Service
2012 Community Rail Officer hired
The CRP heavily promotes the new hourly service
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Facilities Improvements
New Help Points at Halesworth and Melton
New CIS at Beccles, Oulton Broad So. and Westerfield
Car parks were more than doubled in size at Melton and Wickham Market
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Results
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2013 Southwold Bus Link
2013/2014CRP Reorganisation
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2014/2015 Designated Service status
2015 Halesworth TVMwith ACoRP / SCC funding
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2015 Major ACoRP grantWickham Market Stationcanopy
2015 Lowestoft Arches co-funded with theWherry Lines CRP
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2016 Free shuttle busto Folk East
2016/2017 Walks Bookletand waymarked walks routes
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2016 Queen’s Birthday
2016 CRP opens VisitorInformation Point
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Community Rail Partnership
2017 New line guidesand maps
2017 £100,000 major schemeat Lowestoft
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working on…...
Better facilities at Derby Road and Felixstowe
More parking at Beccles, Darsham and Saxmundham
Pedestrian routes at Oulton Broad So. and Melton
Through ticketing from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh
Elimination of timetable gaps by reducing unused legacy freight paths to Sizewell A
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with LAs, TOC, Network Rail, DfT
Boardmembership
Engage with the DfTand Network Rail
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with ACoRP and the RailwayHeritage TrustUtilising resources, trainingand sharing best practice
Identifying historical stationfacilities that might qualify forfunding
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with our Neighbour CRPs
Sharing resources and coordinating events
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with Community
More attractive and viable for community business start-ups (who are members of our Line Groups)
Beccles Wickham Market
Trimley and Saxmundham next
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with the Community
National Organisations
Local Organisations
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with the Community
User Groups
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working with the Community
Businesses
Station Adopter groups and Individuals
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Growth since the Beccles Loop
Working in Partnership...
A team effort that produces results for rail passengers and the communities the railway runs through
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