Improving Community Rail Services

Earlier this month the government launched a consultation which represents an enormous opportunity to improve under-used stations and rail lines across Cumbria.
 
The Community Rail Strategy will help local community groups bid for cash to adopt under-used stations and rail lines, with millions of pounds of investment available for successful schemes.
 
Nearly 60 partnerships have been set up around the country since 1993, and have helped to revive and reshape more than 80 routes and stations, thanks to volunteers, community engagement and funding from the government and train operators.
 
The potential benefit to us in West Cumbria is considerable. If we can improve opportunities for people to get to places of work like Sellafield or to shopping centres by rail, and improve the facilities at our local stations, that would not just be an excellent thing in itself, but it could also reduce the pressure on the road network with which routes like the A595 are not coping, and thereby mitigate the knock-on impact of those problems on villages like Moor Row, Bigrigg and St Bees.
 
Transport minister Paul Maynard MP has launched a consultation into how the Community Rail Partnerships scheme can be expanded and it is hoped that the expanded scheme will launch next year.
 
You can have your say about this scheme online at
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-community-rail-strategy,
 
or by email at  CRConsultation@dft.gsi.gov.uk
 
or write to

Kulvinder Bassi,
Zone 4/21,
Great Minster House,
33 Horseferry Road,
London,
SW1P 4DR

I would urge anyone reading this with an interest in rail services in our area to take part.

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