Excellent public meeting tonight with Ian Brown CBE FCLIT, Policy Director for Railfuture. Very interesting talk looking at what he had been able to achieve as well as an honest appraisal of what he had sometimes failed to achieve in terms of expanding the rail network whilst working inside the railway and the lessons for us campaigners now working from outside the industry. Good range of questions and I was pleased to note an above average turn-out. Earlier in the day Ian and I had met Cllr Richard Wearmouth from Northumberland County Council, and then, assisted by SENRUG Committee Member Gordon Summers, taken a road tour round the Ashington Blyth & Tyne Line.
