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Mark Thompson 近期的活动

  1. Mark Thompson 支持 Miff 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I'm delighted to see Exmoor Associates and YVT (soon to amalgamate as the Barnstaple & Yeo Valley Railway Trust – B&YVRT) have been thinking along similar lines. I suppose I should join! The following quotes are extracted from Trackbed Trails...

    2026-02-05 , 18:35

  2. Mark Thompson 支持 RailWest 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    With respect, IMHO there is some muddled thinking here. 1. Let us not forget that the 2018 application to go to PE was approved by ENPA. It failed primarily - if not solely - bacause the Trust could not comply with the Grampian conditions. 2....

    2026-02-05 , 15:32

  3. Mark Thompson 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I think the idea that the objectors are only opposed to a terminus is questionable - at least some of the objectors are opposed to the railway in any form. One such (at least) is a landowner who would have to be persuaded or compelled to sell to...

    2026-02-05 , 15:30

  4. Mark Thompson 支持 RailWest 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I would agree with your 2nd and 3rd sentences. However, I would not dismiss the idea of a Museum altogether if it were about any of the following (in a sort of rough order) :- the L&BR the railways of North Devon around Barnstaple the railways...

    2026-02-04 , 18:22

  5. Mark Thompson 支持 60044 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    My twopennorth-worth is that thoughts/suggestions of establishing a museum are not helpful, there needs to be a real focus on extending the railway, whether it is in the form of an extension or, less favourably, a second line that can be linked...

    2026-02-04 , 18:20

  6. Mark Thompson 支持 brmp201 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I am an L&B Trust member, but my personal opinion is that we need a base on the outskirts of Barnstaple (with good road connectivity, car parking and storage space) before trying to build a railway in the south. If we can get that, then I'm all...

    2026-02-04 , 10:01

  7. Mark Thompson 支持 James Hewett 在 Southwold Railway 内发表的帖子.

    Thanks Mark. Yep, we made that point.... but they insist on their right for two motorised wheelchairs to pass, not to speak of their large numbers of incompatible dogs to be kept apart.... Their attitude is "how dare you even think about...

    2026-02-04 , 04:06

  8. Mark Thompson 支持 ross 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    Maybe Parracombe is akin to Passchendaele. Possibly the Woody Bay section is like Market Garden- great idea if it had worked, but the SS Panzers... Woody Bay- Killington Lane is boxed in, apparently checkmated by slick planning lawyers. Breakout...

    2026-02-04 , 04:04

  9. Mark Thompson 支持 James Hewett 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    Thanks - exactly our long-term plan in the Blyth Valley. Many question the point in putting down track where it cannot be used for some years - but the rails at Halesworth now not only look as if they were never taken up, but feature in the...

    2026-02-04 , 04:02

  10. Mark Thompson 回复主题: Southwold Railway.

    Oh James, I'm so sorry. 3m? That's not a footpath, it's a road. How fat are these people? And between 1929 and now, they never even thought about it. It's mean, petty and parochial pearl-clutching of the first order.

    2026-02-03 , 17:22

  11. Mark Thompson 回复主题: Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Absolutely, Miff. If you have the assets, flaunt 'em, even if its just high days and holidays! And one thing about the line in the Yeo valley, there's plenty of assets, far too good not to show.

    2026-02-03 , 15:37

  12. Mark Thompson 支持 Miff 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    There is another possible approach, as adopted by Rother Valley Railway and also on a smaller scale by the 2 Southwold Railway groups. Where land is owned and planning-permission easier to obtain (e.g. outside the National Park) build sections...

    2026-02-03 , 15:36

  13. Mark Thompson 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I think things are more optimistic than that, but I agree this is the hour before dawn. The arguments are beginning to slacken off, and there are changes in leadership that suggest a different path is possible at Woody Bay. Meanwhile, the...

    2026-02-03 , 14:59

  14. Mark Thompson 支持 RailWest 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    If you see Blackmoor as a destination from WB, the IMHO that will only be achieved once the Trust finds solutions to 2 key problems - (1) the sections of trackbed between PE and BR not yet in Trust ownership and (2) the rebuilding of Parracombe...

    2026-02-03 , 14:54

  15. Mark Thompson 回复主题: Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Not so long ago, support and resource was there in abundance. However, since then the debacle of having the existing planning applications lapsing, the expensive "red line" fiasco, subsequent failed planning applications, plus the huge sums of...

    2026-02-03 , 12:15
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