The Future
There are plans to operate services to Newport station on the newly reopened Ebbw Valley Railway and re-open more former stations on the line as part of a wider transport strategy for the city. Currently services operate between Ebbw Vale Parkway and Cardiff Central.
The Newport Unitary Development Plan lists the following policies in part 4 under "Public Transport":
- Railways
T1 The railway system will be safeguarded and developed by:
- The provision of new stations at Caerleon, Coedkernew (Newport West), Rogerstone, Bassaleg (Pye Corner), Maesglas (Newport West Central) and Llanwern;
- the protection of disused railway lines from development;
- Protecting and encouraging rail access to industrial development;
- Promoting the re-opening of the Western Valley line to passenger traffic;
- Supporting improved rail links to Newport Docks and river wharves;
- Promoting the upgrading of the South Wales Main Line and through services to the continent;
- Supporting applications for government grant for new rail facilities.
Read more about this topic: Railway Stations In Newport
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“One merit in Carlyle, let the subject be what it may, is the freedom of prospect he allows, the entire absence of cant and dogma. He removes many cartloads of rubbish, and leaves open a broad highway. His writings are all unfenced on the side of the future and the possible. Though he does but inadvertently direct our eyes to the open heavens, nevertheless he lets us wander broadly underneath, and shows them to us reflected in innumerable pools and lakes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)