This is a test of GDPR / Cookie Acceptance [about our cookies]
Really irritating test - cookie expires in 24 hour!
The Railway Conversion [League / Campaign]
 
The Railway Conversion [League / Campaign]
Posted by grahame at 20:31, 29th January 2026
 
The railway Conversion League was founded following the seminal paper at 1 in the table below.  It was renamed the Railway Conversion Campaign and ceased operations in 1994 with the death of the Chairman, Major Angus Dalgleish.

https://www.transport-watch.co.uk/topic-7-archive-railway-conversion-league-1958-1994?

A collection of some 20 documents pointing out that railways were direct and flat, but expensive and suggesting
The Case for Transforming the British Railways into Motor Roads

Lots more interesting topics at https://www.transport-watch.co.uk/transport-topics

 
The Coffee Shop forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western). The views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit https://www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site at admin@railcustomer.info if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules. Our full legal statment is at https://www.greatwesternrailway.info/legal.html

Although we are planning ahead, we don't know what the future will bring here in the Coffee Shop. We have domains "firstgreatwestern.info" for w-a-y back and also "greatwesternrailway.info"; we can also answer to "greatbritishrailways.info" too. For the future, information about Great Brisish Railways, by customers and for customers.
 
Current Running
GWR trains from JourneyCheck
 
 
Code Updated 11th January 2025