Campaign launches to support branch line reopening
The Campaign for Cowley Branch Line has been set up to back efforts to create two new stations and provide a nine-minute ...
Science and tech groups lead campaign to revive Oxford rail link
Cowley freight line has been closed to passengers since 1963 and now only transports Minis from BMW’s car plant ...
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Campaign for Cowley Branch Line launched - project would create up to 10,000 jobs
The project will also support the creation of 6,000 to 10,000 new jobs and unlock 2.5 million square feet of additional commercial space within existing innovation parks. It will also connect Oxford’s ...
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Calls for Oxford traders to help reopen Cowley Branch Line
Calls for local businesses to voice their support for the Cowley Branch Line in Oxford to re-open, which could bring up to 10,000 jobs to the region.
Old railway to become £2.7m cycling and walking route
The railway line was built in 1855 as a branch of the Midland Railway, going north through Little Eaton and Coxbench to ...
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Swiss introduce world’s fastest cog railway
No one has ever thought of cog railways as fast. Stadler and the meter-gauge Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn railway are working to ...
Thousands attend Keighley & Worth Valley Railway steam gala
More than 4,000 people attended the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's annual steam gala recently. The event, which took place from March 20 to March 23, featured a dozen steam locomotives in action ...