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Train Firms Urged To Promote Cycling
« on: August 15, 2008, 11:07:48 PM »
York’s MP has called for new rules to make it easier for cyclists to travel by rail (link below.)
http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/3594536.Train_firms_urged_to_promote_cycling/

Hugh Bayley joined forces with local cycling lobbyist Paul Hepworth to call for a new national policy, to force all train companies to adopt the same approach.
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Re: Train Firms Urged To Promote Cycling
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2008, 11:09:12 PM »
A Leeds MP has demanded an apology after he was stopped by rail staff from taking his bicycle onto a London to Leeds train and called "stupid" (link below.)
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Leeds-MP-demands-apology-from.4400612.jp

Fabian Hamilton, MP for Leeds North East, said he was treated in an "outrageous" way by National Express staff at London's King's Cross Station.
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