P-06-1288 Deliver Magor and Undy Walkway Station, part of the Burns Delivery Programme, as a quick win - Correspondence from the Petitioner, 26 September 2025

Thank you for the update and sight of the minister's letter.

Whilst it is reassuring that work continues to enable planning for the 5 stations, starting work on the necessary consents and the expectation of some funding next year, our serious concern arise from the minister's final sentence -"We need all 5 stations to be built to maximise the operational, economic and societal

benefits they will bring, and we shall continue to press for this". We have 2 questions -

• If funding isn't available from UK government to build all five stations (and the other rail projects in WG's mind), will the whole 5 station project be abandoned - i.e. wasting the money (which by then will be a significant amount) spent on all the design, planning and business case work?  Potentially another M4 relief road pointless spend!
• Why can't the 5 station delivery be phased - starting with Magor & Undy - which, unlike the other 4, does not require major infrastructure change to bring services into operation? 

We will raise this with the new TfW engagement manager when we meet him in October.

Kind regards

Paul Turner

MAGOR group