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lynbarn liked 35B's post in the thread Bala lake Railway..

It is perfectly normal for placenames from one language to be rendered differently in another. I refer to Rome, not Roma; Cologne, not Köln, etc. Different English speakers also have different accents -despite living here 20+ years, my father...

lynbarn liked 21B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

The LBRT needs to continue the great work at Woody Bay. Secure the heritage of the L&B and sort out OSHI. Achieving financial stability should be the main focus in my opinion for the next three to five years.

lynbarn liked 21B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

My two pence: The most important currency to build at present is that of credibility. Both within and without the heritage railway movement the overall project skates on thin ice at present. Only the B&YVRT has been in consistent “positive”...

lynbarn liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

Sorry, but I disagree. If you build up to, but not through, the Churchdown bridge (no other way to avoid impinging on the bungalow site), then the train is going to be terminating right behind Fairview . Nowhere for the passenegers to get off the...

lynbarn liked 35B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

Agree completely. I think the elephant in the room, though, is that the 2018 permission was based on Killington Lane - Blackmoor Gate; any part scheme will be vulnerable to charges of cherry picking and undermining the intent of ENPA....

lynbarn liked pmh_74's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

No, I agree... but giving objectors such easy targets to object to just seems counter-productive to me. Especially when you have a local plan, which already says what you can do, and which your application will be judged against.

lynbarn liked 35B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

I'm not sure that the local politics are as simple as that - or that the territory was so benign before the previous errors.

lynbarn liked pmh_74's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

It was, but the objectors also gained traction because of all the nonsense about putting in a sector table. Notwithstanding the fact that it obviously wasn't communicated clearly what that meant in practical terms, it could have been avoided...

lynbarn liked 35B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

While I agree with your sentiment about distracting projects, we do know that there was great hostility to the proposal to vary the 2018 planning permission to permit operation to just Parracombe - although I accept that the failure of the...

lynbarn replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

Well, to be honest about this, I am sure if we were to meet in a pub and we were having a face to face disscusion about heritage railways, I would bet that we have very similar views on how all this lot should/could go forward.

lynbarn liked James Hewett's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

Wow lynbarn - not summat I often hear! (Your opening phrase....) Agree with all you say. I also appreciate the WB coaching stock - and (presumably because that's the main part of their experience) the general public DO enjoy proper heritage...

lynbarn replied to the thread Southwold Railway.

James, not wishing to fill Southwold up with redundant 3ft gauge locos, but has anyone given some serious thought about acquiring one or two locos from Ireland? I read somewhere that if you are a registered charity, the BnM might consider you as...

lynbarn replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

James Hewett is right. If we take the heritage railway enthusiast side of things out of the question (for now) and rebuild the Woody Bay operation into a long siding, then yes, I agree, most of the visitors to Woody Bay are not die-hard railway...

lynbarn liked James Hewett's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

lynbarn liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

I think you will find that relinquishing the site of KL station is not so much a result of any agreement with the landowner, but as a condition of the original planning permission from the ENPA.