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Awayday Demo to Save Rail Link

April 6th, 1984, Barrhead News

The slogan for the forthcoming protest action organised by Neilston Community Council is ‘Have an awayday and help to save the Neilston Line’.

The 9.24a.m on Tuesday, April 17th, could be the most important train that any of the residents of Neilston and Uplawmoor or Patterton will ever board. For demonstrators are boarding the train en masse to press their case home. The line beyond Whitecraigs is threatened with the axe unless people act now and do so in large numbers. Several months ago Strathclyde Regional Council voted to withdraw the section 20 subsidy without which British Rail will suspend services to Patterton and Neilston.

The Community Council believes that this decision was taken in haste and without full consideration of the economic and social effects. The report published by the regional council’s transportation sub-committee is being carefully studied by the community council. It is intended to challenge several aspects of this report, and the figures obtained from the rail users survey recently conducted by members of the community council will help to build a case for the retention of our rail link.

Grateful thanks are due to all those rail travellers who took the time to fill out the survey forms…… The community council needs your support on April 17. Join the 9.24 a.m train and march from Central Station to India House where it will be made plain to councillor Malcolm Waugh and his committee that Neilston will not take their decision lying down’.