Council tourism chief slams Rother heritage rail project
Jul 23, 2018
4 minutes
By Geoff Courtney
NEVILLE STEAD/
THE TRANSPORT LIBRARY
TREVOR STREETER
A COUNCIL tourism chief has mounted a fierce attack on plans to link two heritage railways, despite the project being given approval by the council of which she is a member and an independent report saying that the plan would boost the local economy annually by more than £4 million and create up to 75 jobs.
The scheme would link the Rother Valley and Kent & East Sussex railways, and so create a 14-mile heritage line that supporters and many local residents believe would be a major tourism and
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