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Bedfordshire Railway & Transport Association (BRTA) is a voluntary 'open to membership from the public campaign people-group, founded in early March 1997. «http://www.brta-bedford.org.uk» The Inaugural meeting, was held at the Library Room of the Bedford Quaker's Building 'Friends House' in Bedford, 5 Lansdowne Road, Bedford, MK40 2BY, UK .

BRTA, since 1997, always advocated reopening local rail links including Bedford-Sandy-Cambridge later dubbed 'BSC', «/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail_Link», Bedford-Olney-Northampton, later dubbed 'BON', «/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_to_Northampton_Line»; Stations North of Bedford 'SNOB' as well as calling for stations by the Interchange Retail Park at Kempston on the Bedford-Bletchley Railway, on whose 'Line User Group' BBRUA «/http://www.bbrua.org.uk/», BRTA's first Chairman Mr Richard Pill, a Bedford-born man, had served from 1985-1997 as a committee member. In 1997, whilst at the Inauguration Meeting, he was elected by those present, as Chairman and was successively re-elected at Annual General Meetings until 2007 when he stepped down, leaving a vacancy, which was not filled until after a 5 year period of relative dormancy, when Mr Michael Hustwait, a long standing BRTA Committee Member, offered to take an Acting role as Chairman, in a 2013 Resuscitation drive, with mixed success in that goal of continuing the effort for Bedford-Northampton and lesser, BRTA's Voluntary Campaign «/http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/psd/public_services_history» presence, spurring other efforts on and adding a unique contribution to discussion and debate in fine tuning projects of various transport related kinds. The railway now called 'Marston Vale Railway'«/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marston_Vale_Line», and at Ampthill«/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampthill» «/http://factlookup.com/article/Ampthill_railway_station»to bring that historic town back onto the rail network and answer growth and capacity problems affecting commuters and residents in burgeoning Flitwick «/http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/Resources/PDF/TransportAndStreets/Parking/Flitwick%20Parking%20Study%20Report.pdf»«/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flitwick»«/http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/local-business/business-information-and-advice/developments/flitwick-town-centre-development.aspx»in then Mid Bedfordshire, now known as Central Bedfordshire.«/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_Bedfordshire_District/http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/»

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