Northumbria University Archives - Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/tag/northumbria-university/ Reopening the Waverley viaduct as a footpath Thu, 02 May 2024 09:09:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-WAVERLEY_VIADUCT1-green-transparent-300-125x125.png Northumbria University Archives - Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/tag/northumbria-university/ 32 32 Students help viaduct campaign https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/news/2021/12/24/students-help-viaduct-campaign/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 08:59:23 +0000 https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/?p=462 Article from the Cumberland News A significant development has been made to the campaign to reopen a viaduct as a footpath and cycle path. The Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust have been given a major confidence boost in its mission to reopen the viaduct to pedestrians after university students produced a survey. The survey, which the […]

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A significant development has been made to the campaign to reopen a viaduct as a footpath and cycle path.

The Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust have been given a major confidence boost in its mission to reopen the viaduct to pedestrians after university students produced a survey.

The survey, which the five postgraduate students. from Northumbria University Newcastle created, will help the trust clearly justify its reasons for reopening the viaduct. David Ramshaw of the Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust said: “When we started this project ten years ago, we went around all of the pubs collecting signatures. “We got 5,000 signatures that said that we wanted to see the viaduct reopened, but that is all that was said. “This survey is a brand new survey – it asks questions like ‘are you aware of the trust trying to reopen the viaduct?’, ‘how did you find out about this?’ and ‘would you be prepared to volunteer as a Friend of the viaduct?’ If we can get enough people to fill it in, we will have a survey similar to the other one with a large number of people, but we will have data that we can to a funder [with] and say ‘look, 40 per cent of the people who have responded have said they are willing to support us in [these] particular ways.

“They would give all the reasons why they want to cross the viaduct. In some cases this might be commuting to work, or walking your dog. “Not only can we say that we have got this support, but we [can say] that we have got this support with these reasons as to why they want to see the viaduct reopened and that might help us to get in money.”

Carlisle city councillor Les Tickner, who is also a lecturer at Northumbria University, arranged for the students to help the trust. The students are also helping by conducting research and creating a viable plan for the viaduct something the Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust has been campaigning to have reopened for 11 years.

You can take a look at the survey at https://northumbria.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/carlisle-waverley-viaduct-trust

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]]> High hopes for bridge campaign https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/news/2021/10/27/high-hopes-for-bridge-campaign/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:47:13 +0000 https://www.carlislewaverleyviaducttrust.co.uk/?p=455 Article from the News & Star A Carlisle campaign group has launched a publicity drive to highlight the need to reopen one of the city’s historic bridges. The Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust has welcomed students from Northumbria University who are set to help open the bridge across the River Eden to both walkers and cyclists. […]

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A Carlisle campaign group has launched a publicity drive to highlight the need to reopen one of the city’s historic bridges.

The Carlisle Waverley Viaduct Trust has welcomed students from Northumbria University who are set to help open the bridge across the River Eden to both walkers and cyclists. The organisation has been working to to reopen the via- duct for more than 10 years and its aim is to “promote public access across the River Eden within the city for walking and cycling, to reconnect and unite communities”.

Julie Bowman, the group’s chair, said this next stage is a major achievement. Five international student have travelled from India to study at the university. The team leader, Vignesh Koreddiwar, 23, said: “We want to help attract people to the area and hope to make video and do a lot of work on social media. We plan on reaching out to charities and others who have interests in the viaduct’s history.”

The team is hoping to be able to secure more than £250,000 in funding to help get the viaduct open and safe for the public are able to use. The volunteers have high hopes for the area and want to introduce some new and younger people into the team to help secure its future.

Julie said: “We hope the students will be able to help us find the money to fund the work we need to do. “They will be able to offer a different prospective.
“The public are well aware of the viaducts situation, many likened it to the ongoing disappearance of many of the city’s historical assets. “Boarded up Carlisle’ was a term used by more than one individual and many were angry in respect of a perceived disinterest by officials and lack of imagination towards the city’s revitalisation. “Most felt and said that the council were more interested in building more housing estate estates.

“Overwhelming support to reopen the old girl is out there what’s not to like about the campaign to give her back to the people?”

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