We have tried to provide the most objective comparison between the Busway and Railways with passing loop proposals for simplicity. More details about each can be found in the previous two articles about the Busway and the Railway.
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The Abbey Line is a 6.5 mile electrified railway line connecting Watford Junction and St Albans Abbey station. In its current form the line permits a single train which shuttles between the two stations. The current railways line is suitable for heavy rail, the same as you would get connecting Watford or St Albans with […]
There has been lots of talk about turning the Abbey Line into a Guided Busway system. This would involve replacing the current railway line with a concrete guided busway. In this post we provide a review of the busway option, in future posts we review of the current railway and in the final post a […]
On Tuesday the County Council’s “Growth, Infrastructure, Planning and the Economy Cabinet Panel” is considering a raft of reports following the consultation on the A414 from last February.
The officers’ report to the Cabinet Panel included the following parts:
7.14 The specific mode of MRT will not be identified until the Design Stage. Emerging technology is likely […]
Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) have finally agreed to drop the idea of converting the Abbey Line into a guided busway following strenuous campaigning by ABFLY which saw over 500 people writing to the County Council in protest against the idea.
The County’s latest Local Transport Plan, upon which consultation starts in November, will include the following […]
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NOTE: Please visit www.abfly.org.uk/savetheabbeyline to see what you can do to help us save the Abbey Line – including signing the petition / responding to the HCC consultation (very important), joining ABFLY or making a donation.
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The Abbey Flyer Users’ Group (ABFLY) have suspended their support for the Abbey Line Community Rail Partnership (CRP) and called […]
Why is the line under threat?
Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) are threatening to close the Abbey Line – again.
In their ‘Transport Vision 2050’ consultation paper, recently published (1), they propose to tear up the existing electric railway line between Watford and St Albans and turn it into a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route – effectively making […]
In a move strongly welcomed by ABFLY, it appears that Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) have dropped their unaffordable and unlikely-to-succeed aspiration for turning the line into part of a Supertram or Guided Bus network, and started working with Network Rail to improve what we already have.
Back in the summer, over 200 people responded to our ‘No2Bus’ […]
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