Save Our Rail NSW Inc.

Meet the candidates from Charlestown, Lake Macquarie, Swansea at Windale-Gateshead Bowling Club Wednesday 16th March 2011 5.30pm

SOR will hold a “meet the candidates” forum for Charlestown, Lake Macquarie and Swansea in the lead up to the State Election. All welcome

This event will be an opportunity for members and friends of SOR to hear the candidates for these seats. Meetings have been held in Maitland, and for Newcastle and Wallsend.

The Windale-Gateshead Bowling Club is in Lake St Windale (turn right at traffic . . .

WesTrans concept proposal

Save Our Rail invites you to the launch of our Western Transport Initiative (WesTrans) concept proposal.

Friday 26 November 2010 at Wallsend Diggers at 5.30pm

The WesTrans includes the Western Education Link Line (WELL) and Commuter “Clipper” Buses.

From the many options available, Save Our Rail chose the one which:

addresses the needs of the greatest number of people
services the greatest number of . . .

Thursday 3rd June 2010 – 5pm to 6pm at Civic Park

Save Our Rail will rally in Civic Park on Thursday afternoon 5pm to 6pm, opposite the Fix Our City meeting in Town Hall and in opposition to their plans to cut the rail line.

On a satirical note, those who arrive beforehand can see the separate . . .

Thursday 29th April 2010 – 12 noon at Worth Place

Save Our Rail will have a sausage sizzle and music event at Worth Place on Thursday 29th April 2010 at 12 noon. Worth Place is just off Hunter Street, . . .

Saturday 2nd May 2009 – 2pm to 4pm

Polish Hall, Maitland

Grant Street (behind Maitland Town Hall)

Guest Speaker: Professor Howard Dick

Howard Dick is a Professor at University of Melbourne and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He will be speaking about the “Economic Benefits of Keeping the Line into Newcastle“.

Guest Speaker: Alan Squire

Alan Squire is convenor of Newcastle Transport for Business Development and a retired former corporate lawyer. . . .

Saturday 13th December 2008 – 12 noon
Newcastle Leagues Club
National Park Street (opposite Spotlight)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Garry Glazebrook, UTS
Researcher in Sustainable Transport and Urban Development

End the line at Wickham?

Change of mode = longer trip
Result: many will opt for car use
More cars on road = traffic jams
More cars on road = not enough parking
Buses won’t cope with peak train loads
Current bus users will lose their seats
Buses will be stuck in the traffic jams too
Surfboards, bikes, prams, luggage won’t fit

Save Our Rail proposes:

Pedestrian . . .

NEWCASTLE FORESHORE – Railfest was a day of festivities on the Newcastle Foreshore on Sunday, 2nd of October 2005 to demonstrate community support for the Newcastle Rail Service, celebrate 150 years of rail services in NSW, raise awareness and funds for the campaign to Save Our Rail.

Save Our Rail exceeded all . . .

CIVIC PARK NEWCASTLE – Newcastle Trades Hall enjoyed the biggest and best May Day march in decades when Save Our Rail joined the march from Civic Park to the Workies this year. Marchers were blessed with a lovely autumn day and the carnival atmosphere was amplified by stirring music from the Scottish Pipe Band, our own university tom toms and soul-stirring chants.

More than half of the marchers chose to march . . .

NEWCASTLE TOWN HALL – Save Our Rail, with Newcastle City Council, held a very large Transport Forum, with over 600 attending from as far away as Muswellbrook and Gosford, which called for social and economic impact studies to be conducted on the proposal to close . . .

NEWCASTLE STATION – When former Minister for Transport Costa announced the closure of Broadmadow to Newcastle rail line, he also mentioned that no new buses or special roads were needed as there was sufficient capacity in the existing Newcastle buses. A year before he announced that superior buses would provide a better transport system on a dedicated bus corridor. People of the Hunter were asked to assemble at Newcastle station . . .

Ribbon on the Station Day: Australia Day 2005 at Newcastle Station
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The Save Our Rail (SOR) group ran a series of community forums to increase their understanding of community needs around public transport. This was done in response to the Lower Hunter Transport Working Group (LHTWG) reports from October – December 2003.

The LHTWG reports did not report on community views. Although the LHTWG received over 320 submissions, none of these were described in the reports and the submissions are not publicly available.

SOR decided to run these workshops on public transport deliberately not . . .