Railfuture is an independent, voluntary group representing rail users in the UK with 20,000 affiliated and individual members. It is not funded by train companies, political parties or trade unions and uses the principle of one-member one-vote democracy.

Visit our main web-site at www.railfuture.org.uk.

Railfuture campaigns for cheap and convenient rail services for everyone; better links for buses, bikes and pedestrians; policies to get more heavy lorries on to rail; new lines, stations and freight terminals. In short, a better rail service and a bigger rail system for both passengers and freight.

Modern Oxford and Cambridge are world famous for their high-tech industries as much as for their historic universities. The 70 miles between them have also evolved into 'an arc' of of fast growing towns and cities, most notably Bicester and Milton Keynes, again with fast developing high tech industries. Travelling through this 'high tech arc' is not easy. The railway was dismembered years ago and the parallel road is heavily congested and journey times slow..as is its coach service.

Railfuture is campaigning to re-open the railway so that all the 'centres of excellence' along 'the arc' can be linked by a fast but sustainable form of transport, the train.

An additional benefit will accrue from this new rail link, in that services will be able to continue onto the existing rail network to the outer extremities of 'the arc' at Ipswich and Norwich in the east and Reading, Swindon and Bristol in the west.

The new railway will have a high added connectivity value as it will make a network of the radial routes from London, thus creating many more easy rail journies to equally fast growing settlements such as Bath, Bristol, Northampton, Luton, St Albans.

You have opened up the link to Railfuture's proposal for this project and hopefully to see what you can do to help...

Let us get cracking and resolve this issue and quickly build it.

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(leaflet photography by Brian Forbes and Jeffray Wotherspoon)

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