I thought that it might be worthwhile letting you all know of the campaign by the Capital Rail Action Group to re-open the Edinburgh South Suburban Railway to local passenger services.
We are currently petitioning the Scottish Parliament on this issue and our online petition has to date attracted 964 signatures - more than any other current petition. The total should have reached 1000 by the end of this month.
We have set up a website -
www.reopenthesouthsub.org.uk - to go with our petition and, although not the most sophisticated website in the world, I hope that it will contain something of interest to you. The background briefing document would be a good place to start - feel free to use anything from it. There's also a diagrammatic map of the line - especially useful if you know Edinburgh a little bit.
The petition can be signed via a link from the website or via the e-petition section of the Scottish Parliament website or directly at
http://epetitions.scottish.parliamen...PetitionID=163
The closing date for signing the petition is 8th September 2007 - the 45th anniversary of the line's closure to local passenger services.
I hope that you will feel able to sign the petition and pass on the details to others whom you think might also do so. It takes less than a minute to sign.
Please feel free to get back in touch with me if necessary.
Yours sincerely
Lawrence Marshall
Chair
Capital Rail Action Group
50 (3F1) King's Road
Portobello
Edinburgh EH15 1DX
Tel.: (0131) 669 1336
e-mail: lawrence336 'at' btinternet.com
www.capitalrail.org.uk