No further work is proposed unless there are significant changes in government policy. Board members will be meeting with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, Tom Harris MP, and will lobby Government for changes in investment criteria necessary to justify reviewing the position further.
Councillor Rupert Simmons, Chairman of the Central Rail Corridor Board, said: "There is a lot of professional expertise contained in the study and the Board is satisfied that, as far as they are aware, Network Rail has covered all the relevant issues."
Network Rail’s Lewes-Uckfield railway line reinstatement study will be available on the East Sussex County Council website on Friday 25th July 2008. Hard copies of the study will be available at local authority offices and some public libraries at the beginning of August.
The Board’s report including their decisions based on Network Rail’s study’s conclusions will be made available today on our pages about Public transport.
The Board will meet again in the near future.
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Network Rail has a statutory duty to develop and set route strategies on behalf of the whole rail industry.
The Central Rail Corridor Board Members comprise representatives from East Sussex County Council, Wealden District Council, Lewes District Council, South East England Development Agency, South East England Regional Assembly, Charles Hendry MP and Norman Baker MP.
The Central Rail Corridor Board Observers include representatives from Uckfield, Lewes and Crowborough Town Councils and representatives for Lewes and Wealden Parish Councils
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