In February 2020, FoSBR member and Thornbury resident Chris P wrote to local MP Luke Hall. Chris wanted to know what Luke was doing...
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Author: Tim Weekes
FoSBR AGM 2020: A brief report
This is a brief report of the FoSBR AGM, on 14th Feb 2020. Chair Rob Dixon summarised another busy year. FoSBR has had much...
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Cardiff Metro
Cardiff is lucky. Much of its local railway network consists of the Valley Lines, which survived Beeching and continued into the 1980s because they...
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FoSBR AGM 2020
Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FoSBR) will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Friday, 14th February 2020. We apologise for the fact that...
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Severn Beach line tops 1.4 million passengers
Figures from GWR published by Severnside Community Rail Partnership show that usage of the Severn Beach line reached a new high of 1,407,102 journeys...
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HS2
HS2 is controversial, and it’s not on our patch. The easy option would be for FoSBR to stay neutral. But HS2 matters to everyone,...
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MetroBus: a waste of money?
James Freeman, MD of First West of England, has stated in an open letter that MetroBus may have been a waste of money because...
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Western Gateway Rail Strategy Consultation
FoSBR have submitted a response to the Western Gateway Rail Strategy Consultation. We call on them to increase rail investment, and to halt their...
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FoSBR Website updated
We have updated the FoSBR website! Our old website was developed back in the days when most people surfed the web on desktop computers....
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Temple Meads masterplan: November 2019 update
On 27 November, FoSBR representatives attended a ‘workshop’ event at Mott MacDonald’s office in Bristol to review the masterplan for upgrading Temple Meads station....
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