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• Ebbw Rail Campaign - Update 20th January 2005 It has emerged that the Ebbw Vale line reopening scheme has become a victim of the rail industry's out-of-control cost escalation. Phase 1 (Ebbw Vale to Cardiff hourly) will not now commence until 2007, and instead of a lengthy double-line section in the central part of the route, most of it will be built as single track with single-platform stations. This will preclude a half-hourly service and eliminate freight paths. This hardly inspires confidence that phase 2 will ever be funded. That was to include building back into Ebbw Vale town, and to Abertillery, with two trains per hour in the valley - one to Newport and one to Cardiff. We regard this later phase as essential if the railway is to fulfil its potential. i.e Don't bet on it ever happening here in Abertillery. You'll have to go to Ebbw Vale (like everything does in Blaenau Gwent!) http://www.chartist.demon.co.uk/rdsw/ebbw.htm: -- MB, 10:45:07 07/14/05 Thu
  • Re: Ebbw Rail Campaign - Update 20th January 2005 It has emerged that the Ebbw Vale line reopening scheme has become a victim of the rail industry's out-of-control cost escalation. Phase 1 (Ebbw Vale to Cardiff hourly) will not now commence until 2007, and instead of a lengthy double-line section in the central part of the route, most of it will be built as single track with single-platform stations. This will preclude a half-hourly service and eliminate freight paths. This hardly inspires confidence that phase 2 will ever be funded. That was to include building back into Ebbw Vale town, and to Abertillery, with two trains per hour in the valley - one to Newport and one to Cardiff. We regard this later phase as essential if the railway is to fulfil its potential. i.e Don't bet on it ever happening here in Abertillery. You'll have to go to Ebbw Vale (like everything does in Blaenau Gwent!) http://www.chartist.demon.co.uk/rdsw/ebbw.htm: -- Jeff, 10:30:13 07/21/05 Thu