Cumbrian update ….
Some of you will have seen the Comment from John Kitchen, our first Community Rail Officer, and now Rail Officer for Cumbria County Council in response to my original “Workington” post.
I felt this was too important to leave buried as a post, so I’m also reproducing it below ….
“All,
As you will doubtless be aware by now the railway industry has risen to the challenge of the disaster in West Cumbria in an exemplary manner. We have more than doubled the capacity available across the Derwent bridge, we have produced emergency car parks, we have provided extra waiting shelters and Network Rail produced a new station in a week!
It has been a great pleasure to have been a part of this extraordinary operation where solutions have been produced to keep Sellafield working – more than 1200 of their labour force live north of the River Derwent across which the bridges collapsed. DRS have produced the shuttle trains with a class 47 at one end and a class 37 at the other and the government has given us a free railway from Maryport to Workington until 31/12/2009. On two morning peak services (8.21 and 8.33 out of Maryport) we are regularly uplifting in excess of 500 passengers.
Nobody has said no – nobody has failed to respond – nobody failed to recognise from day one that the train really had to take the strain. The horrendous circumstances faced by the people of the area have at least been alleviated by this magnificent effort.
Your (former) CRO, John Kitchen – Rail Officer – Cumbria
p.s. Good luck to Sally!”
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