Tina Biggs, Author at Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways

Reducing car use in the West of England – can rail do the job?

May 4, 2020June 26, 2020Tina BiggsFoSBR Plan for Rail, News, WECA

FoSBR’s Tina Biggs wrote an article for Rail Professional magazine’s May edition titled “Reducing car use in the West of England – can rail...

Is there support for Coalpit Heath station?

March 4, 2020March 6, 2020Tina BiggsFoSBR Plan for Rail, Stations

FoSBR have long advocated an additional station to the north-east of Bristol. The most promising locations are Winterbourne or Coalpit Heath, both of which...

Freight headshunt east of A38, end of the Thornbury line, 2005 and 2020

Thornbury: Questions for MP Luke Hall

February 18, 2020March 3, 2020Tina BiggsFoSBR Plan for Rail, News, WECA

FoSBR supporter Chris P has written an excellent letter to local MP Luke Hall, which neatly summarises current transport issues in Thornbury. These are...

ZeroWest Winter Conference

January 21, 2020July 6, 2020Tina BiggsCampaigns, Events, FoSBR Plan for Rail, News

FoSBR is a member of ZeroWest, an alliance of local organisations working towards a zero carbon West of England. Transport is a key policy...

Clifton Down Access Improvements

November 11, 2019December 5, 2019Tina BiggsCampaigns, News, Stations

Those of you using Clifton Down station, via the car entrance to the car-park from Whiteladies Road, may have noticed that, on the left-hand...

Clean Air Plan

November 8, 2019December 5, 2019Tina BiggsCampaigns, News, Services

Hopefully many of you will have heard of the government directive to cities to come up with Clean Air plans. Is there any implication...

JLTP4 – our response

March 20, 2019January 7, 2020Tina BiggsNews, WECA

FoSBR has made a detailed response to the Draft Joint Local transport Plan 4 (JLTP4). We are pleased to support the objectives at Section...