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Bletchley Park
Passengers travelling on the Marston Vale
line, 20% reduction in admission to Bletchley Park on production
of a valid Marston Vale rail ticket. This offer is valid until
31st Oct 2010 for all
types of admission ticket i.e. adult, concessions and families.
Kids World
Commencing 24th October 2009 until October 2010 - 20% discount
on child's entry to Kidsworld (adjacent to
Bedford St. Johns) with valid Marston Vale rail ticket.
Woodworks
Woodworks – festival of wood, woodlands and wood products
Saturday 4th, Sunay 5th September.
£1 off entry ticket
if you arrive by train – www.londonmidland.com
0845 602 4277. Free bus shuttle from Millbrook Station to the
Forest Centre all weekend. More
details www.marstonvale.org/woodworks
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The
Bedford
to Bletchley Rail Users’ Association (BBRUA) is a voluntary
group formed in 1980 to help promote and thus help secure a
future for this often-threatened rail service through the
Marston Vale.
The association has approximately 400 members including a
number of corporate members such as schools, councils and local
organizations.
Train services on what is now known as the Marston Vale
Line (originally part of the Oxford
to Cambridge route) are currently operated by London Midland.
Read
here notes of the presentation to the 2008 AGM by London
Midland.
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Officers of BBRUA regularly meet with managers
responsible for the rail service with representatives from Network Rail
and from the newly formed Community Rail Partnership for the Marston
Vale Line.
Regulatory bodies such as Passenger Focus and the Department for
Transport are supplied with copies of the association’s newsletters.
BBRUA is a corporate member of RAILFUTURE (formerly The Railway
Development Society).
As well as campaigning for reliable train services for the regular
passengers using the trains for school, shopping, work etc the
association views the rail service as having increasing potential for
leisure travel, particularly with the growth of the
Marston
Vale
Community
Forest
close to Millbrook and Stewartby stations.
Talk is no longer of closure but of improvements and rail
development. There is a strong possibility that services will be
extended from Bletchley to/from Milton Keynes Central from 2009 and
support for re-opening through to
Oxford
gathers momentum
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