Thirty Dawlish businesses have joined the campaign ‘Get here on the Riviera Line’ launched by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership’s Citizens’ Rail project. Window stickers encourage visitors to shops and cafes to travel there by the train on the line which runs from Exeter to Torbay through Dawlish.
David Force, Chairman of Dawlish Chamber of Trade, said, “The Dawlish Chamber of Trade is proud to be associated with this positive initiative. Dawlish shops and businesses are ready and prepared for a bumper summer season and welcome the support from the Citizens’ Rail Project in...
Pickets are out in force again today as a strike over jobs, services and safety on First Great Western enters it's second full day.
General Secretary Mick Cash said: "The solidarity, unity and fighting spirit of RMT members the length and breadth of the FGW franchise has been a fantastic example for the whole trade union movement as we face up to attacks on our jobs and conditions and the safe delivery of services to the travelling public. "Our pickets have reported strong public support for this action as the people who use these routes know only too well what profiteering and...
Rail Union RMT said this morning that talks aimed at settling a dispute on First Great Western over the threat to jobs and safety from the introduction of the new Hitachi Inter-City trains have broken down without agreement and the forty eight hours of strike action across the company starting at 18.30 hours on Wednesday 8th July goes ahead as planned.
There will also be a rally in support of RMT’s members on FGW in their dispute at 17.00 hours Wednesday 8 July at Paddington station.
RMT said that First Great Western were simply playing for time in the talks and were going...
British Transport Police (BTP) officers are appealing for information following a series of incidents where objects deliberately placed on the railway were struck by trains. The incidents all took place in and around the village of Newton St Cyres in Devon. Sergeant David Mannion said: “Some time in the early hours of Tuesday, 5 May, four concrete troughing lids were deliberately placed on the line close to Newton St Cyres station.” The first train through the station at 5.50am hit the lids. While no injury or damage was caused, there were delays to services while the incident was...
The first service to arrive at the station was from Exeter St David’s, pulling up at 05:56, followed by a train from Exmouth, which arrived at 06:29.
Devon County Council has worked closely with the Department for Transport, Network Rail and First Great Western on the £2.2 million scheme, which has developed a complete new station facility over the past eight months.
The station has been part-funded with £741,000 from the Department for Transport’s New Station Fund. It is one of five stations awarded funding nationally, following a successful bid by the County Council. The...
A new booklet aimed at encouraging great scenic train journeys along the Riviera Line between Exeter to Paignton and promoting Dawlish & Teignmouth has been published.
The free booklet has been produced by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership and brings together ideas for great days out in Exeter, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton Abbot and along the English Riviera. Walks from stations are also featured including the Exe Estuary Trail and Agatha Christie Mile in Torquay.
The booklet also promotes South Devon events along the Riviera Line in 2015 including the Dawlish Arts...
The largest rail union, RMT, has confirmed that members will be taking 24 hours of strike action from 5pm Thursday 4th June through to 4.59pm on Friday 5th June in the current dispute over pay and jobs at Network Rail with a further 48 hours of action from 5pm on Tuesday 9th June to 4.59pm on Thursday 11th June. In addition there will be action short of a strike from 00.01 Saturday 6th June to 23.59 on Friday 12th June.
The RMT executive decision is:
We note that a meeting with our Area Council Representatives has been held and as part of a rolling campaign we instruct our...
Families invited to release their inner artist through operator’s giant interactive experience
Re-immerse yourself in your childhood as First Great Western takes a giant colouring-in board on tour to showcase the great destinations across the South West.
Children and families are being invited to release their inner artist and get involved colouring their own landscape as First Great Western take the giant board to key attractions on the FGW route network.
“Can you help paint your town?” asks First Great Western’s Campaign Manager Jamie Anderson. “Showcasing the key...
First Great Western and award-winning seafood chef and restauranteur, Mitch Tonks, have today launched an all new lunch and dinner menu for the UK’s only daily fine dining rail service, the Pullman - available on ten services daily.
Mitch has created the menu using locally sourced produce, building on First Great Western’s 50:15 pledge to source products from near the railway line.
This includes fish from Mitch’s local Brixham market, burrata from Laverstoke Farms, fillet steak from Somerset, scallops from Devon, Westcountry cheese and Somerset quince jelly. The wines –...
School children from Newtown Primary School in Exeter will be launching a new poster they have designed to promote travel on the Avocet Line, the branch line which links Exeter and Exmouth.
Courtesy of First Great Western, the children were taken on a familiarisation trip from Polsloe Bridge station to Exmouth by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership and members of the Avocet Line Rail Users Group (ALRUG) last summer.
They drew sketches of everything they saw on the trip and learnt about the history of the railway and how it shaped Exmouth. Back in class, the sketches...
