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TRADERS in the Royal town of Windsor have won another round in their fight to keep more tourists out.
The town's council has rejected any planning applications which would attract more tourists to see Windsor Castle and the ancient town. Now it has turned down a British Rail plan which would have kept the summer's tourist 300 coaches out of the borough but possibly doubled the number of tourists brought into the town.
In a plan to re-develop the central station, British Rail suggested setting up a Royalty and Railways museum in the station buildings and ferrying visitors in on a park-and-ride scheme from nearby Slough.
British Rail's idea would have meant that nearly all the coaches would have had to park in Slough and their passengers ferried into Windsor on the link train service, already under-used. But members of the Council's planning sub-committee have stopped the plan dead.