It has today been announced that that Abbey Line Passing Loop will receive funding to further develop plans. This was part of the Government’s £500 million commitment to reopen railway lines and stations across the country that were closed during the Beeching cuts of the 1960s.
Earlier this year the Members of Parliament for Watford, Dean […]
Hertfordshire County Council has published their top 10 priorities in the “Local Transport Plan Delivery Programme”
Local Transport Plan Delivery Programme List of Projects which the County Council will seek to enable or promote being:
Gilston – Sustainable Transport Corridor
Watford Junction development transport infrastructure package
Principle of Sustainable Travel Town
MRN A414 Capacity Scheme (Watford to […]
We set out to investigate the options for providing an increased service on the Abbey Line. We are now pleased that since our original request for support back in May 2017 we have now fully completed the Feasibility Study – thank you very much to our members, local councilors Asif Khan, Sandy Walkington & Stephen Giles-Medhurst, Abbey […]
AbFly is very please to present to you the result of our crowd funded feasibility study investigating the construction options and cost estimations for the reintroduction of the passing loop at Bricket Wood. You can download the complete study or read the executive summary below.
Executive Summary
The report presents a number of options for the […]
A copy of Hertfordshire’s Local Transport Plan has been published on the Hertfordshire County Council website, the consultation is open for one more week until 23rd January. Here are our thoughts on the plan and we encourage you to complete the consultation on the councils website so that the voice of the users of the […]
It has been a very busy few weeks while we have been working hard to get people to pledge to our Crowd Funding but we have succeeded in reaching the goal. Thank you to everyone who pledged, we really could not have done it without you!!
We will get the funds in the new year and […]
One of the reasons that we are championing our SpaceHive campaign is because we want to show that there are multiple options for the passing loop, each with different cost and operational implications.
What are the options we are talking about?
Platform on the loop
The main advantage of the platform on the loop is that both trains would […]
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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