Thomas J Stamp
09-12-2016, 11:22
The Nenagh Community Rail Partnership (see Note #1 below) has arranged a meeting this Saturday in Limerick for anyone interested in helping to set-up and co-ordinate a campaign against the proposed cuts (#2).
If you weren't included in the circulation list for the preliminary notice of this meeting, please accept our apologies for short notice.
The meeting will be in the Shannon Room at the Limerick City Hotel (#3) and will start at 1430h. This timing will allow rail travel from all the affected areas - even Rosslare (#4).
Agenda to be finalized at start of meeting but may include consideration of:
Agreeing campaign themes and priorities
Setting up a nationwide on-line petition
On-line survey of current usage patterns & market needs
Specific issues affecting each line
Drawing up a list of low-cost ways of increasing usage
Getting the interest of national media (as well as local)
Getting the attention of TDs and councilors
Use of social media
Engaging with younger travelers
Establishing a local action group for each line, where none exists, and/ or a national umbrella body (Irish Rural Rail Alliance?)There will obviously not be time in the meeting to discuss many of these items in any detail. The focus of the meeting will therefore be on establishing teams to progress as many of them as we decide to run with,
Younger rail users and Irish Rail staff will be especially welcome. (Names can be excluded from the list of attendees!)
We hope to see a couple of representatives (at least!) from every station at risk of losing its train service:
from Rosslare Europort to Enniscorthy
from Tipperary to Carrick-on-Suir
from Gort to Craughwell
from Roscrea to Castleconnell
Remember: united we stand; divided we fall !
Enquiries about the meeting to the following mobile number. (No emails please - I simply won't have time to respond!)
However, if you cannot make it, an email simply asking to be kept informed about the campaign will be welcome.
Duncan Martin
PRO, Nenagh Community Rail Partnership
086 8377 906
If you weren't included in the circulation list for the preliminary notice of this meeting, please accept our apologies for short notice.
The meeting will be in the Shannon Room at the Limerick City Hotel (#3) and will start at 1430h. This timing will allow rail travel from all the affected areas - even Rosslare (#4).
Agenda to be finalized at start of meeting but may include consideration of:
Agreeing campaign themes and priorities
Setting up a nationwide on-line petition
On-line survey of current usage patterns & market needs
Specific issues affecting each line
Drawing up a list of low-cost ways of increasing usage
Getting the interest of national media (as well as local)
Getting the attention of TDs and councilors
Use of social media
Engaging with younger travelers
Establishing a local action group for each line, where none exists, and/ or a national umbrella body (Irish Rural Rail Alliance?)There will obviously not be time in the meeting to discuss many of these items in any detail. The focus of the meeting will therefore be on establishing teams to progress as many of them as we decide to run with,
Younger rail users and Irish Rail staff will be especially welcome. (Names can be excluded from the list of attendees!)
We hope to see a couple of representatives (at least!) from every station at risk of losing its train service:
from Rosslare Europort to Enniscorthy
from Tipperary to Carrick-on-Suir
from Gort to Craughwell
from Roscrea to Castleconnell
Remember: united we stand; divided we fall !
Enquiries about the meeting to the following mobile number. (No emails please - I simply won't have time to respond!)
However, if you cannot make it, an email simply asking to be kept informed about the campaign will be welcome.
Duncan Martin
PRO, Nenagh Community Rail Partnership
086 8377 906