Agenda for Annual General Meeting 8 December 2022 at 7.30pm

Posted on by December 7, 2022

SEVENOAKS RAIL TRAVELLERS ASSOCIATION

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Thursday 8 December 2022 at 7.30pm

To be held over Zoom

Chairman: Mr Tony Clayton

Agenda

  1. Chairman’s Introduction
  2. Discussion of current issues

                 (a) Timetable from 11 December 2022
                 (b) Closure of Ticket Offices
                 (c) fast Maidstone East to London service

  1. Formal business

                 (a) Approval of minutes of 2021 Annual General Meeting 
                 (b) Approval of Annual Report 2021-22 
                 (c) Approval of Accounts to 31 December 2021 
                 (d) Election of Chairman
                 (e) Election of Officers and Committee

 

Andrew Stott
Secretary

Joining instructions in the PDF agenda

 

 

Annual General Meeting 8 December 2022

Posted on by November 22, 2022

The 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Sevenoaks Rail Travellers Association will be held by Zoom at 1930 on Thursday 8 December. Please contact the Secretary for the link.

The main item for discussion will be the new timetable to be introduced from 11 December. This has significant changes, including much poorer connections for Dunton Green commuters who change trains at Chelsfield. 

We do hope that you can attend.

Southeastern buying a fleet of new trains

Posted on by November 21, 2022

The excellent ianVisits website about London and travel reports that Southeastern have issued a notice to train manufacturers to buy a new fleet of trains, to go into service in late 2027. It seems that these are to replace the aging “Networkers” used for suburban services and also the services to Tunbridge Wells.

Apparently the specification calls for both toilets and air conditioning – although it’s not clear whether the new trains will have proper seats or just the “covered boards” that were used for the new Thameslink trains.

Timetable changes from 11 December

Posted on by November 21, 2022

There are significant changes to the timetable for services from Sevenoaks, Dunton Green and Otford from 11 December. The detailed timetables have been published at https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/live-travel-information/december-timetables and Southeastern kindly gave us a briefing on the concepts behind the new timetable and the main features. We have looked at the timetable in detail and these are our main observations.

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