| Re: bridgwater freight link to be brought back into use? Posted by grahame at 07:01, 4th November 2023 |     |
From the Bridgwater Mercury
Efforts to connect Gravity to rail network in the balance
The Gravity enterprise zone lies on the former Royal Ordnance factory site between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington, east of the M5 near Bridgwater.
Sedgemoor District Council and its successor Somerset Council have been working to deliver the site, spending £10.3m on a new access road linking the site to the A39 Bath Road (which opened in October 2021) and creating a local development order (LDO) in December 2021 to speed up the process of delivering different elements of the new campus.
But efforts to deliver a new rail link to the site – which were originally priced at £50m – remain at a standstill until the potential occupier of the site has signed on the dotted line.
The Gravity enterprise zone lies on the former Royal Ordnance factory site between the villages of Puriton and Woolavington, east of the M5 near Bridgwater.
Sedgemoor District Council and its successor Somerset Council have been working to deliver the site, spending £10.3m on a new access road linking the site to the A39 Bath Road (which opened in October 2021) and creating a local development order (LDO) in December 2021 to speed up the process of delivering different elements of the new campus.
But efforts to deliver a new rail link to the site – which were originally priced at £50m – remain at a standstill until the potential occupier of the site has signed on the dotted line.
| Re: bridgwater freight link to be brought back into use? Posted by grahame at 22:53, 19th May 2023 | |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65645201
See also http://www.passenger.chat/23605 ... though at the time I saw that as freight only, and I notice that the Gravity refers to rail freight and passengers. With 7500 working on site, that may make sense. Extend Severn Beach to Weston-super-mare to Gravity?
| bridgwater freight link to be brought back into use? Posted by infoman at 19:41, 19th May 2023 | |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-65645201
