Following the launch of our campaign to raise £10k for the passing loop feasibility study (see the post here) we have spent some time restructuring the costs and we have just launched a formal crowd funding campaign on SpaceHive. On the SpaceHive page you can see more details about what we are looking to do and see the progress we […]
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Despite material successes in our long-running campaign over the last 2 years – one extra late evening train, ticket machines installed at all stations (albeit some of them subject to almost constant vandalism […]
Thanks again to persistent ABFLY lobbying, a new bus service linking St Albans’ railway stations and the city centre has launched this week (Monday 30 January).
The Abbey Shuttle will travel between St Albans Abbey Station and St Albans City Station via St Peter’s Street with the timetable scheduled to coincide with the Abbey Line train […]
The Department for Transport (DfT) will be re-letting the contract for the West Midlands rail franchise this year, which includes the Abbey Line.
As part of the franchise specification, a seemingly innocuous report was released under the radar entitled, “West Midlands Ticketless Travel Report”. Click on the link to download a copy:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548031/wmf-ticketless-travel-survey-final-report.pdf
The report contains the findings of […]
A positive story to start the New Year!
After 20 years of campaigning, progress has been made towards one of ABFLY’s long held ambitions, which is to extend the running hours of the Abbey Line later into the evening.
Since 11th December, London Midland have been running one additional return trip every night of the week.
The last departure […]
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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 […]
ABFLY have warmly welcomed the announcement that after 20 years of campaigning, services on the Abbey Line are finally to be extended past the current closing time of around 10pm.
On 3rd December it was announced that London Midland had been successful in securing a new ‘Direct Award’ contract which means that they will be continuing to […]
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