West Somerset Railway General Discussion

Nearly 2000 posts. If the squabbling does not stop soon will there be a WSR??

 

Some NPers might have grand ideas about themselves, but I honestly don't think any of them equate the number (or content!) of posts on here with the ability or otherwise of the WSR to survive...

 

I dunno, we've had 1800 pages on Brexit and we've just about sorted that out...

 

Looking back at WSR news, I see this...

Appointment of Justin Kerr-Peterson as Company Director (west-somerset-railway.co.uk)

And now this...

Justin James Melville KERR-PETERSON - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House) (company-information.service.gov.uk)

The news item hints that the GM will not be a board member, so a resignation from the board makes sense if the original role is now confirmed.

Is this what you were referring to?

 

Yes.

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I'm glad you raised the question because as I mentioned, when I saw the CH information something rang a bell in my mind, but until you asked, I'd not looked further.

Hopefully the appointment will be confirmed by the WSR, and perhaps, with a little more haste than updates on other issues have been...

 

I isn't sayin nuffink!

 

Actually, your post was #37,621. I think you must have meant '2000 pages'

Noel

 

What I find somewhat odd is that the WSR, having recently reported that "...Jonathan Jones-Pratt will remain as Acting General Manager alongside his role as company Chairman...", then goes on to comment "..... many of you will be aware Jonathan runs his own business as well as the volunteer work, he does for the railway, he will provide as much support to the business as possible however due to time commitments a lot of this work has to be done remotely...." Too many hats perhaps ?

 

I must have missed him being both chairman *and* acting GM, I agree, that does seem like too many hats, and not just for reasons of time either.

 

Yes.

The 6 May 2020 news release from the WSR which I linked to a few posts back regarding the appointment says as much in the penultimate and it's preceding paragraph.

Clearly being GM and a board member was not then seen as being a good thing.

 

Agreed, he has been dealt the worst possible hand and all credit to him for picking up the mess left behind the cart horse. The end point will be that we will arrive at the same position had the plans been left as they were, but with a huge hole in the revenue column.

 

The SVR have recently appointed their GM to the PLC Board for the first time since the 1990s. I can't find the quote but I'm sure I remember reading something along the lines of "this was considered to be a good thing by the rail regulators".

 

The Charter, by RTC on 24th. July, to Minehead still shows, on their web site, that the WSR portion is steam hauled through to Minehead. Maybe nobody has told RTC.

 

There is the small matter of a year between the end of winter 18/19 and March 2020. Are we to believe that the questioning of the design of signals held the crossing project up for all this time? Why was the work not rescheduled for winter 19/20?

 

So, when the ordure hits the fan ........ duck !