Network Rail have launched the website that will be used to support a consultation into proposals to restore the Waterside Line. The consultation will run between Monday 8 August and
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Network Rail have launched the website that will be used to support a consultation into proposals to restore the Waterside Line. The consultation will run between Monday 8 August and
Continue readingAn MP has written to the Rail Minister expressing concerns about the onward push forwards with work to restore a regular service on the Fawley branch. He has expressed concerns
Continue readingHampshire County Council are seeking responses regarding the Waterside corridor transport strategy that it has shared for consultation. It includes the reintroduction of passenger rail services on the Waterside line
Continue readingSouth Western Railway has operated a special train today (Tuesday 28 July) to investigate the potential reopening of the Fawley branch line. The line was one of the ten successful
Continue readingHampshire Council has submitted a bid to the Restoring Your Railway fund to restore passengers train services on the Waterside line between Hythe and Totton. Source: BBC
Continue readingCouncillors have clashed over proposals to reopen the railway line serving Hythe and Fawley. The line has been reviewed twice in the past decade with business cases not showing sufficient
Continue readingHampshire County Council appears to have commenced work to review the feasibility of a new railway linking Southampton with Hythe. Work was formally shelved on the proposal in January 2014.
Continue readingThe last railway wagons have been removed from Fawley oil refinery leading to calls to reopen the line to Hythe also known as the Waterside branch. Click here for the
Continue readingHampshire Chamber of Commerce has backed the reopening of the Waterside line despite it being rejected in a recent feasibility study. Click here for the story
Continue readingJune 2014 marks five years since the publication of the Connecting Communities report into potential opportunities to expand the rail network. This blog will be publishing a set of posts
Continue readingHampshire Council has formally shelved the reopening of the Waterside line that runs from Southampton to Totton and Hythe. Click here for the story
Continue readingHampshire Council is set to shelve plans to reopen a railway line serving Hythe and Hounsdown after a report was published that stated that the line was unlikely to generate
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