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Recent Content by Michael B

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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    @Tobbes I have to agree with you. What really bothers me is that at the end of 2023 the Trust had a £423,000 investment in this Company...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    It has dawned on me that figure shown is the one it should have been in the middle of a series of allotments had the filing been made in the...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Mr Miles (the Director I informed of the apparent LBBC filing omission) wrote back mentioning the final share totals at 31.12.2024, so I...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    I have since discovered that £176,000 of B shares were issued in 2024, not £116,000. There has been no filing on the Companies House website of...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 18, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Part of the problem is the ongoing drain on the finances of the Trust due to the fact that the Blackmoor Company's annual £25,000 loan repayments...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 18, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Only about 30% (at the end of 2023, anyway) is held by the Trust, plus, of course the 50,000 controlling A shares; the rest by private...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 17, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    According to the Companies House website a further £116,000 of B shares in the L & B Blackmoor Company were allotted in 2024. I wonder why this...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 17, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    One is definitely WOODA BAY TO LYNTON, the other could be CHELFHAM TO BLACKMOOR, certainly a round hole and a slot.
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 14, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Having a look at the pictures, where most can be identified: Fred Kidwell's track gauge inherited from his platelaying Kidwell father and uncle...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 14, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Luckily we have someone in Stuart Nelhams as General Manager who will surely have considered such issues.
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 6, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    This job, like the accountancy bookkeeping role, comes occasionally and in intense rushes, some days together. And then there is the...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 3, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Appears to be a big organisation attitude being applied to a small one as @Jamessquared has indicated. See my comments 3 above. With...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 3, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    The Trust already spends over £4,000 on accountancy and bookkeeping (2023: £4,195) and that is on top of over £2,800 (2023: £2,779) at the CIC and...
    Post by: Michael B, Apr 2, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    It also says they hope to have "an interactive information session between the annual AGM formalities similar to that at the recent forum last...
    Post by: Michael B, Mar 19, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    At the risk of a fusillade, this member is interested in the history, and the recreation of the railway is welcome, especially as it is an...
    Post by: Michael B, Feb 12, 2025 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways