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Big challenges for community rail

Council spending cuts could see some Community Rail Partnerships go to the wall

Paul Salveson
10 January 2014
Paul Salveson writes regularly for TSSA Journal and is a consultant specialising in regional rail. He established the Association of Community rail Partnerships in 1997 and pioneered the concept of community rail partnerships.
Paul Salveson writes regularly for TSSA Journal and is a consultant specialising in regional rail. He established the Association of Community rail Partnerships in 1997 and pioneered the concept of community rail partnerships.

 

One of my highlights of 2013 was the Community Rail Awards ceremony held at Llandudno. The community rail network, now a mature movement with 20 years’ experience, still has a talent for innovation and creativity, evidenced by the many schemes highlighted at the ceremony. However, going into 2014 many community rail partnerships face an increasingly uncertain future owing to the bleak financial situation confronting local government.  

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Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson is a board member of Passenger Focus and a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield. Paul’s book Railpolitik – bringing railways back to communities, was published in 2013, also by Lawrence and Wishart. The views expressed here are his own.

 



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