By Phil Marsh
THE Department of Transport has extended a deadline for South Western Railway’s (SWR) plan to transform the operation of the Island Line on the Isle of Wight (IoW).
One of the franchise conditions of SWR taking over the loss-making Island Line was to work with the Isle of Wight Council and Isle of Wight Steam Railway, as official stakeholders, to identify a way of reducing losses while modernising the 8½-mile line.
This condition, called the ‘priced option’, was submitted to the DfT by the deadline of May 31, 2018, with an announcement from the DfT due by December 31, 2018 as to the way forward.
Read more in the February 2019 issue of The RM – on sale now!
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Railway Production Editor at Mortons Media Group Ltd.
Nigel Devereux is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, working in the School of English and Journalism. He has worked within the print publishing industry for 38 years. Nigel was editor of his hometown newspaper - The Horncastle News - from 1998-2001. Nigel is currently the Production Editor on The Railway Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling magazine for railway enthusiasts. He is also responsible for maintaining and updating several websites across the Mortons portfolio.
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