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What makes a good railway town?

Paul Salveson
07 August 2015
 

One of the success stories of community rail is the way links between small towns and the railway have been strengthened in lots of different ways. I was over in Glossop the other week and it was fascinating to see how the station has become a much more vital part of the town’s life than it ever used to be, at least in recent times. Much of that is down to the work of Friends of Glossop Station (FoGS), which brings together a wide range of community activists with links to local business,...

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Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson

Paul Salveson is a board member of Passenger Focus and a visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield. Paul’s book Railpolitik – bringing railways back to communities, was published in 2013, also by Lawrence and Wishart. The views expressed here are his own.

 



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