West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Clan Line ran over the southern part of the S&D on March 6th 1966, the final day.

 

Do we? - where are these plans & how are they to be funded?

 

Andy,
Do you know what you're talking about?* We've heard from so many other experts on the subject on this thread that the infrastructure is collapsing, the railway has no maintenance plan, nothing has been done for years and there's no money to implement one if they had. In any case, its not worth doing any of these things because the railway doesn't need to be anything other than a blue route and the only reason all this would have to be done in the first place is so that the chairman can run his locomotive.


* For the avoidance of doubt, this is tongue in cheek.

 

So which one as I have been to neither in about the past 5 years?

 

Taking your points in turn.

"Do you know what you're talking about?" - Busted! I've been found out at last! How did I get away with it for so long?

"the infrastructure is collapsing" - Not that I'm aware of. There may be some aspects that are deteriorating faster than desirable but that is common in most businesses.

"the railway has no maintenance plan" - Because a plan is not published doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Work on PW etc continues so there must be a plan.

"nothing has been done for years" - Certainly plenty has been done, even in recent years. "Has enough been done in recent years?" may have been a more valid question.

"there's no money to implement one" - I am not aware of the management accounts details so cannot comment, but if work has taken place then money must have been spent.

"In any case, its not worth doing any of these things because the railway doesn't need to be anything other than a blue route and the only reason all this would have to be done in the first place is so that the chairman can run his locomotive." - As previously stated upgrading to Red route will eventually become the inevitable consequence of undertaking the necessary replacement of the Blue route infrastructure as it needs replacing, irrespective of any need for Red route status.

My own opinions.

Andy.

 

That all reads as a good coherent programme for maintenance of the infrastructure. If you're well informed about that, can you say whether it should cost a millions pounds a year (as mentioned recently in this thread), half a million a year (as reported a few years ago) or some more modest amount?

 

Perhaps it is time to update your first hand knowledge?

 

Surely it has to be an unwritten rule that it is to keep any railway in the best possible condition, if that means up grading as you go so be it, how that is done is something the Trustee have to come with such a working plan so everyone knows what is going on.

Colin

 

Unless you know something I don’t, this seems unnecessarily rude.

 

Some valid points, and I hope it will be a case the railway can upgrade to red route through necessary replacements. However if these works are completed just in time for say a 4-6-0 locomotive starting with the number 4's arrival, then a few feathers are guaranteed to be ruffled.

 

Not really if you’ve not been to either in the last 5 years it’s time you revisited….or if not interested don’t comment .

 

You have obviously have no idea of my wife's and my medical conditions which I have mentioned on here previously. Suffice to say with two years of semi self isolation for her needs I have had Covid and still have pneumonia meaning I can currently have no jabs.
I have not even travelled on the line I can see from my lounge for 10 months.
So yes I would love to travel on both lines but it is not going to happen any time soon.
So I ask again which one do you mean?

 

Sorry no wasn’t aware .SVR is the line littered with TSRs.

 

More than happy to be granted a footplate pass for a ride on either railway my friend

 

Manners, my friend, what do they cost?

 

Depends how far they are into their boiler ticket but anything up to £800K

 

The spell checker on my phone says a lot about me, doesn’t it?

 

Did no-one but me read @1472's comment as a friendly invitation to visit the two lines in question?

Edited for clarity.