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RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Many years ago I had go for work purposes to a place in the South Hams. I claimed - and was paid - for a steam train ride on the Paignton - Kingswear line and the ferry across to Dartmouth! And the return journey...
Apr 17, 2024 at 4:29 PM -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
>>>The nearest I could get is that the admission charge involves transport to view the work of the charity... I'm bemused by the thought that visitors to WB would be getting 'transport' on the train to go to KL to see "the work of the charity" :-)
Apr 17, 2024 at 1:04 PM -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The more that I look at these various images, the more that I feel that I can see 'something' there. However I remain puzzled how this avoids the fixing bracket that surely must have run down the centre of the back.
Apr 16, 2024 at 6:46 PM -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
...but surely informative to read anyway for someone with an interest in the L&BR ?
Apr 16, 2024 at 1:21 PM -
RailWest liked Meatman's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
ive no doubt about that and as @Lineisclear suggests that is the way it should be done....or resign, the problem is there have been two dominant trustee's for many years and that is why we are where we are now, if you look back new trustee's have...
Apr 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM -
RailWest liked Vulcan Works's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
15 months ago I joined the committee of a canal restoration society on its last legs that had become a 'gardening and tidying up club'. The Chair was protected by 4 stalwarts who had no new ideas and no desire to embark on any significant...
Apr 15, 2024 at 7:41 PM -
RailWest liked Miff's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
There's 2 assumptions there. One is that the named existing trustee would always support Mr. Miles, and the other is that none of the new candidates would support Mr. Miles. Can either of those assumptions be relied upon?
Apr 15, 2024 at 5:21 PM -
RailWest liked 21B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Rapid evolution rather than revolution definitely a good aspiration. We must wait to see how members vote. There are of course many possible interpretations whenever votes are cast unless the question being voted on is very specific, but I think...
Apr 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I would agree about the need - or at least, desirability - for continuity of information, but even if Trustees do step down they ought really to be still available for consultation, just no longer part of the decision-making process. Of course,...
Apr 15, 2024 at 2:15 PM -
RailWest attached a file to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I would agree that there does appear to have been some letter/numbers in that area. What puzzles me though is that in the larger type used in later years by the SRly the fixing bracket ran down the middle of the back, so any detail cast into the...
Apr 15, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Thanks for your efforts DaveE. It may well be that there was never anything on the backs of those LDPs anyway, but who knows? The GWR brass equivalents often had a pattern number cast on the back, whereas (say) later SR examples had variously...
Apr 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM -
RailWest liked gwilialan's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Sounds much like this well known anecdote but maybe a few of the youngsters out there may not have heard it:- A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes that he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon...
Apr 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I am reminded of the situation some year ago when the then Chairman of a railway Trust asked me if I would be the 'Project Manager' for a small signalling restoration project. At first it seemed a no-brainer, given that I had been involved with...
Apr 12, 2024 -
RailWest replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Many thanks Micheal. Sadly it would appear to be blank on the reverse - a shame. Not surprisingly, as fellow SRS members Edward and I are often swopping random bits of information about as it is not uncommon for one of us to find that the other...
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RailWest liked Biermeister's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Oops, sorry Dave! I meant not outsourcing. My purpose in mentioning getting advice from a museum was so as to set up cataloguing using best practice as the last thing we would want is to reinvent the wheel, surely? Not to run the show!
Apr 12, 2024
