West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Fair comment.

 

But shouldn't there be some sort of plan in place so if you do have people leave you have a successor to take over and carry on with outstanding/ what's planned for the future work rather than let things grind to a halt?

 

It would be hard to recruit people if majority of your staff are on furlough.

 

Yes, you would normally, but different times at present unfortunately .......

 

Fair point, just my thoughts though.

 

Well, itwould be ideal if the L&B were rather longer and the WSR considerably shorter.

 

How can a handover be done if somebody is on furlough? It's not possible.
Handovers take many weeks to write. I have done one before for an office job that I was in post for less than 2 years!

 

It's really not, very nice on a warm summers day.
Don't knock it until you've tried it is the best advice I can give you.

 

As a point of information, the present operating length of the L&B is a mile, not half a mile.

 

Apologies, only been there the once.

 

A most interesting post. The short answer might be to simply tell them not to read the thread if it makes them upset, but that wastes a good opportunity to ask why they feel upset.

Are they all for the direction the Plc board is taking? and if so can they provide a clearer and more factual and logical explanation for the board's activities than has so far been received?

Are they simply hoping "it'll be alright on the night" in the knowlege that the WSR is almost certain to become the personal feifdom of a few people - if it survives at all.

Are they equally frustrated by the frequent and bizarre activities of the Plc board and are just as annoyed as those who post on this thread?

Clearly these people do read the thread, so perhaps they can provide further enlightenment; the attempts so far seen to defend the behaviour of the Plc board have been short on facts and long on emotion, to the extent that some have been almost incoherent, and it would be great to see a logical argument for the behaviour so far observed.

 

All the track at NF was laid by the volunteer gang using donated materials at zero cost to the PLC.

 

I am sure you are technically correct; however, there is still the consideration of both diversion of management resources to focus on problems / projects; and diversion of volunteers from otherwise working elsewhere - neither of which are an unlimited supply.

If the NFR Triangle was a diversion (and I have no specific evidence either way), it wouldn't be the only instance of a significant project diverting attention from elsewhere, even though specifically no cost was incurred. I can think of at least one railway that opened an extension that, while demonstrably it didn't absorb any of the normal revenue budget for infrastructure repairs, did cause those to be set back in time, with the result that there has had to be a significant push in the last six or seven years to catch back up.

Tom