History of RAGES – 2008

 

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Date

Event

Further information

 

 

 

27 February 2008

Final ECML Route Utilisation Strategy report is published

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 37

 

 

 

13 March 2008

RAGES meets with the Minister for Transport, Stewart Stevenson, MSP

News page of web site

 

 

 

26 March 2008

Meeting with East Lothian Council

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 37

 

 

 

April 2008

RAGES writes to CrossCountry re proposed removal of one toilet and the need for a five-coach set on the 17:05 ex-Edinburgh

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 37

 

 

 

3 April 2008

First ScotRail franchise extended by three years

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2008

RAGES attends a meeting with Scottish Borders Council

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

20 May 2008

Scottish Borders Council issue a press release in support of a station at Reston

 

 

 

 

19 June 2008

RAGES attends a Stag User Group meeting

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

28 June 2008

As a result of train cancellations on this day, RAGES writes to CrossCountry and Nation Express East Coast for an explanation

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

July 2008

East Lothian Council confirm the safeguarding of land for a station at East Linton

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

July 2008

Transport Scotland launches a consultation into additional rail services between Edinburgh and Berwick

Report in the Supplement to The Rages Rag Issue 38

 

 

 

5 August 2008

Minister for Transport visits East Linton, Dunbar and Reston

See News page and The Rages Rag Issue 39

 

 

 

11 September 2008

Ninth Annual General Meeting of RAGES

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 39

 

 

 

October 2008

Track renewal on the North Berwick line

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 39

 

 

 

24 October 2008

RAGES features in the BBC magazine programme Landward

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 39

 

 

 

November 2008

RAGES invited and responded to the Consultation on Initiatives Related to the ScotRail Franchise Extension

 

 

 

 

November 2008

RAGES attends an Edinburgh meeting of Railfuture when there was a talk on Tram Trains

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 40

 

 

 

December 2008

The new CrossCountry timetable caused concern about “missing” trains

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 40

 

 

 

15 December 2008

Newcraighall trains now linked to the Fife Circle

Report in The Rages Rag Issue 40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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