Covering letter to Mr S Price of SoS Woodlands Road Committee
| Date | 29 July 2013 |
| Section | Closures |
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Stuart Freer
Executive, Stations & Depots and Network Code
Telephone 0207 282 3674
E-mail stuart.freer@orr.gsi.gov.uk
29 July 2013
Your reference: L-ORR-SF290513
Mr S Price
91 Hazelbottom Road
Cheetham
Manchester
M8 0GQ
Dear Mr Price
Woodlands Road station – closure ratification request
I am writing to let you know that the Office of Rail Regulation (“ORR”) has today issued a
ratification notice for the closure of Woodlands Road station. I enclose a copy of the
ratification notice.
I am also writing in response to your letter of 29 May 2013 (with attachment) in which you
set out on behalf of the Save Our Station Woodlands Road Committee, your
representations on the closure of Woodlands Road station. The ORR procedures for
reviewing closure references1 provide for the Department for Transport (“DfT”), as the
submitting authority of the closure reference, to be given an opportunity to comment on
any representations regarding a proposed closure that are made direct to ORR.
I shared your letter with DfT on receipt and I received a response on 20 June 2013. For
completeness I enclose a copy for your information, although I am aware that DfT has
already sent you a copy of its letter.
I will now deal with those of your representations that fall within ORR’s remit as the
organisation that must decide whether or not to ratify the closure of Woodlands Road
station. Where a particular matter falls outside our remit, I will aim to indicate this in my
response. In preparing this response I have also taken account of your emails dated 7, 10,
26 June and 1 July 2013.
1 http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/closures-procedures-dec06.pdf
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