Richard Pill
Richard Pill
8 April, 2025
News

BRTA calls for more support for a Guildford-Cranleigh-Horsham rail link

British Regional Transport Association (BRTA) calls on local authorities and agencies to give more consideration to the merits of rebuild anew the former rail route to a modern railway statndard. It would give local and regional journey by rail access, taking congestion off local roads and making the on-coming development sprawl more environmentally sustainable.

Rail Network BRTA wants

British Regional Transport Association (BRTA) sees potential and calls on councils and agencies to pool resources including Transport for the South East (TfSE) to invest in studying the proposed rail reopening and work out both the case, the merits and the engineering designs involved to move the project forward towards government approval and delivery over a 5-10 year span.

BRTA is very clear benefits like:

  1. Modern rail access from Cranleigh to Guildford or Horsham in 15 minutes journey time
  2. Access by rail between Reading/Heathrow to Guildford-Cranleigh-Horsham and the South Coast Direct
  3. More freight off the roads and faster by rail like Shoreham Port to West BRTA London and beyond.

CEO Richard Pill said "people have nothing to fear by reopening this rail link, it will be a lasting benefit to the areas it would serve with economic growth and regeneration in its wake. I call on local MP's, Public and Councils to get behind it and lead from the front to reopen it as a vital piece of local infrastructure."