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SURVEY COULD PUT RAIL PLAN BACK ON TRACK
18:00 - 06 March 2008
Rail campaigners have described council proposals to do a feasibility
study of reopening the Portishead line as 'a very positive
step'.
Portishead Railway Group chairman Alan Matthews said: "We have been asked to meet the consultants, which is a first for us.
"We are meeting them tomorrow, then some of the town councillors will meet them in the next few weeks.
"This is a very positive step as we will be able to show we have the expertise and knowledge to help with or question their deliberations."
Mr Matthews has previously said a full feasibility study is vital so campaigners could get access to reliable figures about what it would cost to re-lay the three miles of track, build three stations and run the railway.
The group has been dismayed that figures as high as £30 million have been quoted in the past, when the Ebbw Vale line in South Wales - which required 20 miles of track to be laid and six stations built - cost that amount.
The feasibility study comes in the wake of an announcement last month that the council was considering entering negotiations with the British Railways Board to buy the land between Portishead and Portbury, where the tracks sit, to safeguard it from development.
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