Thank you relex 109 for signing the petition @ number10. Worcester has had to endure second rate rail services particularly to the south west for years. Even the present timetable on weekdays leaves a gaping hole between 0645 and 0905 when national rail enquiries advise passengers from Worcester to change at University for an arrival in Cheltenham of 0845 (a commuters nightmare).
I will always remain fond of Shrub Hill station but it has outlived its usefulness and now stands as a victorian dinosaur. Turn off the mainline at Abbotswood Junction and you enter a 19th Century world of semaphores and tokens...a working museum if you like, which has no place in a modern 21st Century railway.

Re-doubling of the cotswold line is excellent news and is long overdue. Not only will Great Western be able to run more services but much needed relief for freight services using the busy section between Oxford and Coventry will be provided especially during engineering blockades.

Support for the Worcester Parkway project is increasing with local councils, MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context)'s and rail bodies showing a marked interest. Show your support by logging on to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/WorcesterParkway/