Wealden Linkline
Official sites
Airdrie - Bathgate Rail Link
- Network Rail site following this Scottish rail revival that
provides a tantalising glimpse of what a Lewes - Uckfield rail
scheme might be like
Department
for Transport - latest incarnation
of the government department with responsibility for transport
policy
East Sussex County Council
- outlines their transport policy aims in general terms. Also
contains contact information
East Sussex Rural Transport Partnership - grouping designed to improve transport facilities
for the county's rural residents -- though we believe its 'rural
railway' approach to the Uckfield line is inappropriate
East West Rail - project
to revive the mainly closed Oxford to Cambridge route, promoted
by the East West Rail Consortium, which comprises local authorities
and businesses. An interesting contrast with the Lewes - Uckfield
project.
Lewes
District Council - information about
the council's functions along with a collection of local links
National Rail - useful
starting point for planning rail journeys -- has links to individual
train operating companies with maps showing their operating areas
Office of the Rail Regulator
- includes information about the Rail Passengers Committees, which
exist to represent the interests of rail users
NEW
Rail
Alliance - "The new Rail Alliance business network has
been launched with the specific charter of helping the industry
make the most of a billion pound pool of opportunities over the
next decade"
South
East England Development Agency - government
agency designed to promote development of the region's economy
South East England Regional Assembly - forum for examining regional policy that includes
representation from local authorities
South
East Forum for Sustainability -
umbrella group bringing together conservation and transport organisations
across the region
Southern Railway -
new name for South Central, the train operating company for the
Uckfield line
Waverley Rail Project - detailed background and progress reports on yet
another Scottish reopening scheme, this time to restore the northern
end of the Edinburgh - Carlisle route, which closed in 1969
National campaign sites
Campaign for Better Transport
- calling for better public transport nationwide, with a useful
section on rail schemes
Friends
of the Earth - covers a wide variety
of environmental topics including transport
Save Our Railways
- an independent "resource centre" run by unpaid volunteers
to help you find the hundreds of railway sites available on the
web today
Sussex campaign sites
Charles Hendry
- Conservative MP for Wealden. A powerful advocate for the Wealden
Line
Lewes Green Party - long-term supporters of the Wealden Line Campaign
on environmental grounds
Marsh
Link Action Group
- campaign for better train services between Hastings and Ashford
Norman Baker - Liberal
Democrat MP for Lewes. Has backed the campaign for many years
Other local campaigns
Cast Iron
- community rail scheme to reopen the Cambridge - St Ives branch
- killed in 2005 by the local county council in favour of a
costly guided busway scheme. Now monitoring the misguided busway's
progress
Portishead Railway Group - campaign to restore passenger trains to the Bristol
- Portishead line, most of which has recently been reopened for
freight traffic
Skipton East Lancs Railway Action Partnership - campaign to re-instate the trans-pennine Colne-Skipton
route, linking the Aire Valley and Yorkshire to East Lancashire,
Manchester, Preston and beyond
Save the Woodhead Tunnel - aiming to prevent the 1954-built tunnel under
the Penines being wasted as a power cable conduit, when it could
form part of a revived east-west route between Manchester and
Sheffield
Tyne Crossings Alliance - grass roots opposition to plans for a new Tyne
road tunnel
General railway resources
Christian Wolmar - website
of a perceptive and well-informed transport journalist, with archive
of his columns on the UK rail industry -- and exclusive online
content
Disused Stations - fascinating and growing collection of images
and information on the country's closed stations including routes
covered by the Wealden Line Campaign
Kent Rail
- excellent site focusing on Kent's railways, with a good - though
depressing - section showing the destruction of Tunbridge Wells West station.
Railway Register - directory
that aims to list all railway-related websites in Britain and
Ireland
Rail
UK - check out their
1980s section for some photos of the last days of the Eridge -
Tunbridge Wells route
Preservation groups on
the Wealden Line route
Lavender Line
- based at Isfield station
Spa Valley Railway - operates on the two-mile section between Groombridge
and Tunbridge Wells
Updated June 2008