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BQ and some of the committee attended.

The central issue throughout was the loss of our beloved City Services which was encouraging.

Sir john Stanley did us proud once more although the response to him by Southeastern was muted and effectively glossed over the Q.

Sir J is chasing up Teresa Villiers (and already has done twice with a letter and personal chats) as she had promised him the response once the cuts had been announced.
 
KCC declared that they are going to put together an action plan and will present this in April 2011.

We have since receive an e-mail stating that:

"KCC is now using all your views and comments to produce a Kent Rail Action Plan by mid-December. This will be shared widely until the end of March, with a view to agreeing it by the Third Kent Rail Summit next April and presenting it to Ministers at the Department for Transport.
 
Last week's Summit began to define Kent's major priorities for action. These included:
 
Reinstatement of the City service  to Maidstone and West Malling.  
Extending the high-speed service from Dover via Deal and Sandwich to Ramsgate.
Investigating with Network Rail the feasibility of extending high-speed services from Ebbsfleet to Maidstone West.
Improvements to the mainline service on the  North Kent line, while curtailing high-speed services east of Faversham.
Investigating the feasibility of introducing a through service between Gatwick and Kent after 2015.
Including Maidstone East as the principal Kent terminus for Thameslink services from 2016."

As you can see the top point concerns the maidstone and west malling issue so we have to try and continue to push it via the KCC and Sir John!

Over n out for now
BQ

The full Kent Rail Summit debate is now available on-line, together with the presentations from KCC and Southeastern. All are available by clicking the underlined words.

http://www.kent.ukcouncil.net/site/player/pl_compact.php?a=47246&t=0&m=wm&l=en_GB


 


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