Let's promote our line!
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Attractive countryside and coast in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Posters courtesy of reprint publishers - click on picture for how to buy
Posters courtesy of reprint publishers - click on picture for how to buy
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Trains4deal supports making our line part of a new Community Rail Partnership, which will:
- set up a regular dialogue on developing services between local communities and the railway company; - get funds to promote the line and the communities and attractions along it; - lobby to improve stations - including better disabled access and car park facilities; - coordinate rail with buses and safer cycling and walking routes to stations and out into the countryside |
Deal lies at the East end of the Kent Downs AONB.
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Click HERE to find out more about what Community Rail Partnerships already do in other parts of Kent
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...before it's too late!
Fewer passengers are using our rural stations, as High Speed Train services transform travel patterns in East Kent. Many commuters drive to their nearest "rail-head" with a fast service - our rural stations are quietly dying
Winners and losers: HS numbers soaring, but rural stations are slowly dying..
WINNERS:
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Losing out:
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Our local rail lines could be developed to offer sustainable access to the Kent Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
A Community Rail Partnership would promote our local railway lines as a great way to explore the Kent Downs AONB (click the link to find out more) - and our beautiful coast - in a sustainable way - without clogging up narrow country lanes with noisy traffic and visitors' cars.
The existing Kent Community Rail Partnership covers the Medway Valley Line and the Sheerness-Sittingbourne branch.