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Our Team
CKP Railways plc -
management and funding
Iceni Enterprises Ltd -
research, publicity and sales
Corus Rail Infrastructure Services -
Design, Environmental and contractor coordination
Brown and Root, Russell Bowler Environmental, and EEA (Newcastle)
have also participated.
Through this structure we have also employed many relevant specialists and liaised with
local authorities and statutory agencies in Cumbria and the North of England.
We are also liaising with the Department
for Transport in London to ensure that we approach the process to gain the necessary legal powers correctly and thoroughly.
We only pay for satisfactory work completed - nobody earns a salary from us simply for existing.
No fat
cats and no waste !
All funding received by CKP Railways plc goes into developing the Railway.
Cedric Martindale
Director
Carlisle, July 2007
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Our Aim
To reinstate the Railway between Keswick and Penrith as a modern Rail link,
connected into the National Network, and providing an
all-day every-day service of
modern passenger trains
across the north of Britain.
We have designed, and aim to
build, the line, manage it ourselves, and have Train Operators from the National Network extend their services to Keswick.
This gives the maximum possible benefits at minimum cost.
We do not need to buy trains, or build maintenance
depots, or employ train crews.
We simply build the track, stations and signalling; others run the Trains.
Simple !
So simple, in fact that this is how the
original
Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway (CK&PR)
was organised from 1864 to 1923 !
In the 1990s somebody reinvented the idea for Britain's privatised railways, but made it rather more complicated when
they created Railtrack.
We are going back to basics and building
just what is needed
and
controlling it locally.
We will know our costs and control them, not starting with massive corporate overheads
which are
unnecessary for a simple operation
such as this.
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