Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

Keep your logic away from Nat Pres

 

With everything that is going on and which has been discussed at length on this forum, plus a members meeting that could have been reported on it was disappointing.

 

>>>With the exception of the revised arrangements for Parracombe...

What's it say about that then please?

 

Nothing that you haven't already seen, except to say the turntable idea has finally been chucked out. Parracombe is to be operated with an engine release, but only if the plans get passed and the money can be found in time.

 

The loop, sans platform, will be laid on the previously agreed alignment, but as a long siding up to the property boundary. As Lynbarn says, it'll just be a release road. No sector table.

 

Yet the idea of 'engine release' was discounted long ago 'cos of the costs of extra engine + crew etc. Hmm...

 

the revised plan was mentioned at the members forum, when asked about how this was going to operate decisions had not then been decided

 

You don’t have to have an extra crew. Quite possible to do it with the crew off the incoming train, but it will just take a bit longer.

 

I am getting a purple covering down both sides of the screen, so I now cannot read who postings come from or the end of messages on the other side. Any clues please as to how to get them off ?

 

Is it just on this forum, or the whole site?
Im guessing that you've already tried F5 and/or rebooting?

 

Install an ad blocker. @Pete Thornhill it seems ads are still obscuring content for some people.

 

Only if both are diesels, presumably? Is this the plan?

 

Hopefully the revised plan will help to get the planning agreed. Work then needs to start on all the the applications shortly after the planning is passed.

 

F5 worked - shifted Foxy Bingo and Gamble aware.uk off the sides - thank you. I am still where I grew up in the 40s/50s with a baked bean tin on the end of a piece of string.

On the subject of the November-dated newsletter, if some people get the November issue in November (or at least early December) and some like me, and several others, at the end of December (with raffle tickets) and some not yet. Surely this cannot all be down to the actions (or inactions) of the Post Office ? But maybe that explains why we have only had half of the usual Christmas cards.

 

The Post Office definitely have nothing to do with it - they and Royal Mail have been completely separate for 10 years now!

Talking to my father, I’m quite prepared to believe that the Royal Mail industrial action is at the heart of the problem. Even without industrial action, he could get the same issue of a magazine up to a week later than me.


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I don’t know the plan, but I do know how I would do it with one steam and one diesel and one crew. I can think of two ways, neither complex.

 

There are ways to do it with just one engine, but they might not prove popular

I have hear a rumour - which I've not been able to confirm or refute - that because certain objectors(s) have not yet responded to correspondence from the ENPA the Sec 73 applications will not be on the Agenda at the next ENPA planning meeting in January. The next meeting scheduled thereafter apparently will not take place until after the expiry date of the original planning consents. If that is true, then Phase 2A dies a death and a large amount of time and money will have been in vain. AFAIK there is nothing about this in the Newsletter (still awaited here).

Are we just waiting for a Xmas miracle?

 

If "certain objectors" keeping schtumm advances their cause, something is seriously wrong with the system.

 

I thought it was going to discussed at the February meeting - the current approval runs out in early March. No doubt the Trust and the ENPA have taken legal advice.

 

You may well be right, although I thought the next relevant meeting was not until March.

Do not forget that IIRC there are four separate planning consents, each of which will need work done before the expiry date of March 7th in order to be secured. That means that the Trust must be poised 'ready to go' on four fronts within a very short space of time, with both resources and funds. I'm not aware that any of the Trustees have yet confirmed to the membership that is the case, although I understand that the latest Newsletter says that they are "taking steps" to achieve that.