'Rail at the heart of a green transport strategy'
Do you know you can go to London by train from Westbury in both directions?
With a unique choice of Paddington in the west and Waterloo in the centre.
Go by train in about an hour-and-a-half, with no nuisance of your car in London.
Westbury railway station is also ideal to be a parkway, to realise its potential.
The parkway concept is that people use their cars or buses for short journeys to local main-line railway stations
having large parking areas and coach pick-up, charged for in the price of an inclusive rail fare.
Westbury is on two main lines.
The train station is at the edge of Westbury and has sufficient spare land around.
It needs an unrestricted access road from outside of the town, from the west.
Our Westbury MP Andrew Murrison is on record as preferring a western road.
He has lobbied for years for the direct Westbury to Waterloo train service.
He supports improving the service from Westbury via Melksham to Swindon.
Dr Andrew Murrison says that if we are to meet our international obligations on climate change we need to put rail
at the heart of a green transport strategy.
Government figures forecast a 30% growth in rail passenger miles by 2016.
Andrew Murrison has joined the Campaign for Better Transport's Sardine Man and Jenny Agutter to
tackle railway overcrowding - and the rest, we hope.
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