June ← 2014 ← Save Our Rail NSW Inc.

Restaurant owners and accommodation providers say they face financial ruin over Gold Coast tram noise

Jun

28

2014

Is this what we have to look forward to in Newcastle? From the Gold Coast Bulletin, 26 June 2014: RESTAURANT owners and accommodation providers say they face financial ruin as visitors flee an ear-piercing screeching noise emitted by trams on the new light rail. The Bulletin is fielding increasing complaints from traders in Surfers Paradise ...

SOR celebrates and lifts carpet – Media release 13/06/2014

Jun

13

2014

Join with Save Our Rail to celebrate 30 years of electrified rail into Newcastle Saturday 14th June at Newcastle Leagues Club at 12 noon. The event is HIGH NOON IN JUNE – a title chosen to highlight the crisis facing the community with the threat of truncation, the battle to save the line and the ...

Truth will out – Media Release 12/06/2014

Jun

12

2014

Pru Goward, Minister for Planning has come to town with promises to placate Newcastle. Having put her foot in her mouth, by letting the public know that there would be development on the rail corridor once those pesky trains have been removed, she is now trying to pull her foot back out. Trouble is Pru ...

Hoax leads to the Great Wall – Media Release 04/06/2014

Jun

4

2014

Gladys began to tug at the zipper, but now Pru has let the cat out of the bag! Minister for the Hunter Gladys Berejiklian said she “would not rule out development on the line,” but Planning Minister Pru Goward has confirmed what Save Our Rail has realised for many years, that once the trains are ...

Rail corridor to be developed: Pru Goward

Jun

4

2014

As reported in the Newcastle Herald on Wed 04/06/2014: THE state government has confirmed it will allow development on the Newcastle rail corridor. Despite previous indications from the government that the corridor would be reserved for green space and public use, Planning Minister Pru Goward said yesterday ‘‘there will also be some development’’ on the ...

Event: High noon in June! (Sat 14 June 2014, 12 noon @ Newcastle Leagues Club)

Jun

2

2014

SOR: HIGH NOON IN JUNE / Don’t cut Newcastle rail line Future trains – what is possible for Newcastle intercity rail? CELEBRATE 30 years of electric trains TO NEWCASTLE SEE HOW TO IMPROVE NOT REMOVE GUEST PRESENTERS ~ ENTERTAINMENT ~ NIBBLES ~ SAT 14 JUNE at 12 NOON FREE at NEWCASTLE LEAGUES CLUB National Park ...

Don’t derail Newcastle (short video)

Jun

1

2014

EcoTransit Sydney have produced a short video “Don’t derail Newcastle”. Direct rail access between the central business districts of two major cities is the Holy Grail of intercity rail travel. It’s what governments around the world aspire to. But NSW’s Baird Government is planning to rip up two and a half kilometres of the Newcastle ...

SOR question Owens decision to stay

Jun

1

2014

The following article ran recently in the Portside Local, a free to home community focused paper distributed to 4400 homes and businesses every fortnight across the Port of Newcastle, NSW. As the ICAC investigation continues to sweep through NSW, Save Our Rail has moved to seek answers from the Premier, Mike Baird, as to the ...

Video of rally at NSW Parliament house, 28 May 2014

Jun

1

2014

EcoTransit Sydney have published a video record of the Save Our Rail demonstration outside NSW Parliament House on 28 May 2014. We oppose the truncation of the intercity rail line currently terminating at historic Newcastle Station in the heart of the city’s historic core.