CAST.IRON - Media Information

The Chairman and Principal Spokesman for CAST.IRON is Tim Phillips, who can best be contacted by email: chairman@castiron.org.uk.

Tim is also the originator of the concept of staged reintroduction by public subscription, a development of the method successfully employed by the Wensleydale Railway.

Press releases

• 19/02/07: Justification for Cambridgeshire Guided Bus is 'built on sand'
• 30/06/06: CAST.IRON Staggered
• 16/05/06: CAST.IRON delighted at reinstatement of railway track on St.Ives line
• 30/08/05: Public Inquiry Findings Kept Private
• 28/07/05: Dr Gossop's Guided Bus Report Submitted
• 25/05/05: Guided Bus Benefits 'Exaggerated Four Times Over'
• 24/05/05: Guided Bus Usage 'Hopelessly Over-Estimated'
• 20/05/05: Guided Bus 'No Better Than Ordinary Buses'
• 19/05/05: Guided Bus will cost over £106 Million
• 04/05/05: CAST.IRON Chairman To Speak At Railfuture AGM
• 04/05/05: The Great Guided Bus Cover Up
• 18/04/05: A14 Upgrade Scheme 'Defeats' Case for Guided Bus
• 19/10/04: Blade Runner - Savour Of The Branch Lines
• 06/05/04: County Council 'seriously misleading public' on Guided Bus
• 22/03/04: CAST.IRON holds second Exhibition in St. Ives
• 22/03/04: Cambridge Railway Station Exhibition
• 16/3/04: CAST.IRON at the Grafton Centre
• 10/3/04: CAST.IRON at the Station
• 1/3/04: Commuters meet CAST.IRON
• 16/2/04: CAST.IRON Calls on County Council to Reveal True Finance Costs of the Guided Bus
• 9/2/04: Government grant for guided bus is not £65 million - read the small print
• 19/1/04: CAST.IRON welcomes government's 'new thinking' on railways
• 5/1/04: CAST.IRON Public Exhibitions
• 11/12/03: Alconbury development 'makes a nonsense of the guided bus'
• 26/11/03: Time to admit defeat on Guided Bus - CAST.IRON Rail boss slams another County Council delay
• 26/11/03: The Guided Bus, delayed again
• 17/11/03: Councillor accuses CAST.IRON of not playing fair | pdf file |
• 12/11/03: The case for rail gathers strength | pdf file |
• 10/11/03: The Case for Rail | pdf file |
• 30/10/03: CAST.IRON case for rail goes on the road! | pdf file |
• 29/09/03: CAST.IRON chair Tim Phillips pays in hundreds of cheques from supporters
• 23/07/03: CAST.IRON rail plan gets solid support | pdf file |
• 16/07/03: Cambridge to St Ives the CAST.IRON way - rail scheme attracts immediate cash support | pdf file |

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