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The Wealden Line Campaign is pleased to be able to launch today the long-awaited Review and Analysis of the 2008 Lewes-Uckfield Railway Line Study.This highly-detailed technical scrutiny exposes many flaws, as the Campaign’s Director has said in his foreword: “The LURLS contained a number of ‘facts’ which we think were actually untrue and these were combined with a number of opinions which were disingenuously disguised as facts. We consider that the bias in the LURLS is so overwhelming that a disservice was done not only to the public bodies which commissioned it, but the wider public whose interests the report was supposed to serve.”We expect the review to stimulate fresh debate and renewed interest in not just the Lewes-Uckfield reopening, but the greater Wealdenlink Project which will considerably enhance a wide swathe of the South East’s rail network, increase capacity and revolutionise rail travel in the region.The Review and Analysis can be read and downloaded by clicking on the above thumbnail.
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'East Sussex County Council has always been ambivalent about it. They are the ones who have to push it through, and it's something they could perfectly well achieve if they wanted. Another south coast rail link would not just be for the benefit of local villages, and therefore the cost-benefit study has been slightly misconceived. I am keen to see that this is not necessarily the end of the matter.'
Lord Bassam of Brighton