The Clitheroe IJN3UIDE
P^CIPEHTY PPLLOyT
train by Duncan Smith
:. A CLITHEROE businessman is calling on local election can- :: didates to back his campaign for a new rail service;.. and he isn’t afraid to put his money where his mouth is.
; running within a month, at minimal ' Cost,’ and would be well-used by • large numbers of passengers from . each side of the LancashireA’ork- .- shire border.
: ; All that is missing, says Peter, is the political will to make it happen;
; .Which is why he
thinks.that now, r ' With a general election looming, is . the perfect time to get Ribble Val ley’s would-be MPs behind the plan, ; which Peter believes is a surefire
vote winner. What’s more,'he is prepared to.
;. pany,- Northern Rail, to establish; s and run an hourly, daytime service ? between Clitheroe and Skipton for
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back.that belief with hard cash. f ; ,He is challenging the train com-;
5 . a minimum of two years. If, at the ■s? end o f that two years,-the cornpany IS* decides the new route is not viable,.
: long campaigned for a- direct rail link between Clitheroe and Skip- > ton. He claims it could be up and •
: Peter Brab; who runs P. J. Brass newsagents in Whalley Road, has
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Rail campaigner would back Clitheroe-Skipton service with own cash
■for every week it ran'the service - a total of £104,000- from his own;
Peter will pay the company £1,000
.• pocket, in compensation. “l am prepared to sign a legally. binding agreement to that effect, or
I whatever it takes,” said Peter. • “I could raise the money from: selling some property I own, but I
’wouldn’t have to do it. I know that ^ if the service was up and running it would be well-used and profitable.’’ : Peter has a long histoty of cam
paigning for improved rail services. He was one of the founders of Kib ble Valley Rail, the local group which pushed for and won the re opening of the line to Clitheroe in May, 1994, and has a passionate in terest in local rail transport issues. He has thoroughly researched
■ his campaign for a new Clitheroe to L Skipton service and claims it could be achieved quickly and at minimal
“Once it is approved by
the.Gov- ernment, all that’s needed is some
:• minor engineering works to install a new signal at Hellifield South Junc tion and an additional diesel unit (a passenger train) on a continuous circuit. The signal is a three-day job and the whole thing could be up and
running in a month.” . * ‘ I According to Peter,'the line it- . self is in top condition, having had some £82m. spent on upgrading it for heavy freight over the past two ■ years; Failing to make the most of that investment by not also run-, ning a passenger service on the line would be scandalous, he said. At the moment, travelling from
Clitheroe to Skipton by rail means going to Blackburn then Brad ford or Leeds and back to Skipton ; - a journey involving two or three changes of train arid lasting morei: than two-and-a-half hours, v
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re-opening a disused line is at least £2.4m. per mile, but the line from Clitheroe to Skipton is already . ■ Continued on page 2 '■
According to Peter, the cost of j
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TICKET TO RIDE: Peter Brass, who says he will pay the train company £1^000 a week if the Clitheroe to Skipton route is not viable. -
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