We are a group of individuals in Dumfries who are keen to re-open the closed railway to connect us back again with the West Coast fast rail link to Edinburgh and Glasgow. There are 50,000 people living in and around the Dumfries area who would all benefit from better transport links to our capital city. Our first step is to persuade the Scottish Government to do a feasibility study to look at the costs of three possible routes. We need only 14 miles of new track along a pre-exisiting route to re-establish the link again. For more information, see our website: http://dumfriestolockerbierailway.org/
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Reached 500 supporters
June 2, 2016
May 23, 2016
The lack of movement from the Scottish Government is proof that we must increase our public pressure. Email your local representative today and demand they prioritize this feasibility study. Post our website link on Facebook so more neighbors understand how little track is needed to change our local commute.
Reached 100 supporters
May 5, 2016
May 3, 2016
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this milestone before the government officials check the count. Post our petition link to your Facebook page right now. Text three friends who live in the Dumfries area and tell them to sign today.
286 Comments
A direct link to Edinburgh would be of real benefit to me personally. I currently drive to Edinburgh regularly to visit my daughter and grandson however the A702 is not the best road and it's condition is appalling as a direst link to our capital.
I pay around £400 per month for the pleasure of spending nearly 4 hours per day on a train between Dumfries and Glasgow. This would improve my life and the lives of many other people in the south of Scotland significantly.
Dumfries is being starved & economically strangled for lack of transport connections: from being voted the best place to live in Britain (1993) to one of the most deprived places today: please give us a chance to flourish once more.
As a young person who is falling more and more out of love with the terrible and increasingly inaccessible Stagecoach bus service connecting Dumfries to the Central Belt, I would strongly urge our government to seriously consider this action.
Only 14 miles of track for an undoubted economic pay-back seems like very good case, and a shot in the arm for this area that always seems to be a forgotten corner of the country.
Just what is needed for the area
fantastic - this needs to be done!!
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We are a group of individuals in Dumfries who are keen to re-open the closed railway to connect us back again with the West Coast fast rail link to Edinburgh and Glasgow. There are 50,000 people living in and around the Dumfries area who would all benefit from better transport links to our capital city. Our first step is to persuade the Scottish Government to do a feasibility study to look at the costs of three possible routes. We need only 14 miles of new track along a pre-exisiting route to re-establish the link again. For more information, see our website: http://dumfriestolockerbierailway.org/
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
June 2, 2016
May 23, 2016
The lack of movement from the Scottish Government is proof that we must increase our public pressure. Email your local representative today and demand they prioritize this feasibility study. Post our website link on Facebook so more neighbors understand how little track is needed to change our local commute.
Reached 100 supporters
May 5, 2016
May 3, 2016
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this milestone before the government officials check the count. Post our petition link to your Facebook page right now. Text three friends who live in the Dumfries area and tell them to sign today.
286 Comments
It’s not just people in Dumfries who will benefit; it’s also people in Edinburgh, like me, and people around the whole country, who will get railway access to Dumfries and the SW of the country, which currently is impossible for anyone (like me, and like 40% of North Edinburgh) who does not own a car.
A direct link to Edinburgh would be of real benefit to me personally. I currently drive to Edinburgh regularly to visit my daughter and grandson however the A702 is not the best road and it's condition is appalling as a direst link to our capital.
I pay around £400 per month for the pleasure of spending nearly 4 hours per day on a train between Dumfries and Glasgow. This would improve my life and the lives of many other people in the south of Scotland significantly.
Dumfries is being starved & economically strangled for lack of transport connections: from being voted the best place to live in Britain (1993) to one of the most deprived places today: please give us a chance to flourish once more.
As a young person who is falling more and more out of love with the terrible and increasingly inaccessible Stagecoach bus service connecting Dumfries to the Central Belt, I would strongly urge our government to seriously consider this action.
Only 14 miles of track for an undoubted economic pay-back seems like very good case, and a shot in the arm for this area that always seems to be a forgotten corner of the country.
Just what is needed for the area
fantastic - this needs to be done!!
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It’s not just people in Dumfries who will benefit; it’s also people in Edinburgh, like me, and people around the whole country, who will get railway access to Dumfries and the SW of the country, which currently is impossible for anyone (like me, and like 40% of North Edinburgh) who does not own a car.