Copeland Rail Users Group

Newsletter

September 2008

CRUG members receive a full copy of the newsletter.  It’s worth joining CRUG just to get a copy of this excellent publication!

 

Inside the Newsletter:-                    Page

New Northern brochure.................................................................2

Change to DUO restrictions..........................................................2

Platform heights update................................................................3

Millom to Mull and back by train..................................................3

Seascale to Langdale by Public Transport...............................4

Northern and Ratty through ticketing........................................6

CRUG’s response to Draft Rail Utilisation Strategy...............7
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Some lines from the Chairman

My elder daughter was married recently. Most of the guests came from the south or south-west of England. Those who came by car were delayed for some hours by a bad collision on the M6. The only one who arrived in Cumbria on time came by train.

 Of course, we never hear about peoples' journeys by road being delayed inordinately, except in very unusual circumstances, yet rail delays are publicised widely, with such nonsenses as, "...so many years of peoples' lives..." being spent in train delays.

 There have been occasions when I have made my journey by train much quicker than expected, as I have arrived at a station such as Carlisle or York expecting to wait for my intended train, only to find that an earlier train, running late, is still available. Catching it has brought me to my destination as much as an hour early!

 The Whitehaven News of 28th August carried an article on the December timetable, based on information given in the FLAG newsletter. We have seen this timetable, but in confidence as a draft, as it has not, at the time of writing, been authorised by the DfT. Although FLAG's newsletter stressed that it was a draft, the Whitehaven News did not make it clear. 

 Whenever the south-west is hit by storms, most newspapers show waves breaking over trains along the sea wall at Dawlish in Devon. Here in West Cumbria, waves regularly hit trains passing along the sea wall between Harrington and Parton even on quiet days, but nobody bothers!