Letter to The Citizen, 12 September 2011

The Editor                                                                   

The Citizen                                                                  

6-8 The Oxebode                                                        

Gloucester  GL1 1RZ

                                                                                     

12^th September 2011                                                  

Dear Sir

I refer to the article by Max Wilkinson on page 2 of the Weekend Citizen dated Saturday, September 10, 2011, regarding the

Elmbridge Court

hub and a possible railway station.  Gloucestershire County Council has made a good decision in rejecting the railway station which would perhaps have been known as Elmbridge Halt.

The grandiose scheme as pictured by an artist’s impression in the Citizens of Tuesday 11^th July 2006 and Thursday 7^th December 2006 was nothing of the kind.  The proposed station at Elmbridge was just a two platform Halt with no added track or even a cross-over.  A train stopping there would simply block the track and not serve any useful purpose such as changing trains.

In the July 2006 article, City Councillor Mark Hawthorne said that Gloucester should be placed firmly on the cross country map for services between the north of England and the south west.

A station at the north east vertex of the triangle would meet his requirements.

Yours faithfully

Brian Cowell