Madam,

When Thomas Savin and his men built the Cambrian Coast Line in the 1860s they did this to bring people to the Cambrian Coast.

Each weekend excursion trains criss-cross the UK, including on the famed Heart of Wales Line and the Conwy Valley Line. The one line they do not come to is the Cambrian Coast Line.

I appeal to all our MPs and AMs to tell Network Rail this is unacceptable, and our railway in its 150th year must be open to all kinds of traffic, as Thomas Savin intended.

In British Rail days, on some Sundays, there were four excursion trains on the Cambrian Lines. BR Inter City organised land cruises from London to the Coast Line on winter Saturdays. It is crazy in 2017 that, if an organiser wanted to bring 300 to 400 people to, say, Barmouth he could not bring them on the service trains as there is no spare rolling stock at Arriva Trains Wales.

Organisations such as West Coast Railways have the coaching stock as well as diesel locomotives fitted with the necessary equipment to operate to Pwllheli and Aberystwyth.

Bring back the Cambrian Coast Line Action Group so that the 150th anniversary in October of this magnificent railway is celebrated in a way that will ensure it is here in another 150 years - that is open to any traffic passenger and goods on offer.

Yours etc,

Chris Magner, Dunval Road, Bridgnorth.

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