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Gigaliners or megatrucks?
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| European rail organisations have jointly published useful a leaflet setting out the arguments against these vehicles. |
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The oil price debate
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| After many attempts, Tony Berkeley received a sensible reply from BERR to his questions about what future prices of oil were being used by Government departments in their forecasting. 18 June 2008 |
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Crossrail - reports on oral evidence by rail freight interests.
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| Rail freight intersts gave oral evidence to the Committee on 29 April and 1 May. More details |
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Crossrail - DfT and ORR statements, April 2008
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| ORR issued a statement on Monday 14 April confirming their draft decision on the Crossrail Access Option application, and DfT issued a Statement on Friday 11 April about their proposed changed to the Railway Clauses in the Crossrail Bill. |
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DfT Logistics Challenge
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| RFG attended a logistics challenge listening event organised by the DfT as a preparation for the ‘Towards a Sustainable Transport Strategy' (TaSTS) Green Paper to be published this coming summer. |
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More on the Crossrail timetabling
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| Correpsondence between RFG and Network Rail's timetabling team with Crossrail indicates progress, but many uncertainties remaining as RFG prepares to give evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill later in April (posted 21 March 2008). |
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Network Rail's democratic deficit
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| Speeches by Tony Berkeley and others about Network Rail's corporate governance at Co-oerative movement conference, Swindon, 8 March 2007 |
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RFG's Petition to the House of Lords Select Committee on Crossrail
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| THis Petition, submitted today, lists our ongoing concers and provides the basis for oral evidence to the Committee which is planning to start hearing evidence in February 2008. |
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Network Rail's democratic deficit
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| Network Rail Member Tony Berkeley wrote to fellow members about NR's democratic deficit and suggesting a new governance structure based on a lragely elected Members Council. 3 January 2007. Text of letter. |
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Network Rail's W10 gauge map 27 Nov 2007
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| Network Rail has published a useful route map of the UK rail network showing those routes already having W10 gauge and those proposed as part of the various projects which have either been awarded funding or are proposed for it. |
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