News from the East Anglian Branch of Railfuture, Edited by Martin Thorne and Jerry Alderson.
Railfuture News Snippets 351 - 30/06/2022
Official figures released by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) show a total of 990 million journeys were made in Britain between April 2021 and March 2022. This is more than double the number of rail journeys made the previos year (388 million), during which pandemic restrictions were in place for most of the time, as journeys fell to the lowest levels seen since the mid-nineteenth century. Passenger revenue recovered to £5.9 billion (from £2.0 billion) and equates to 54% of the £11 billion generated pre-pandemic. Season tickets accounted for just 16.9% of journeys made this year – half of pre-pandemic levels.
The East West Rail company will be staging drop-in style events on Wednesday 29th June at the The Clayton Hotel, Station Road, Cambridge CB1 2FB and Wednesday 20 July at The Cambridge Belfry, Back Lane, Cambourne CB23 6BW. All events are 14:00-20:00. This is part of the public consultancy process prior to submitting a Development Consent Order (DCO) application to government. The company considers it important to have face-to-face sessions now as their previous consultations were virtual owing to COVID-19.
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Railfuture East Anglia Branch News Snippets 351 - 30/06/2022
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