West Somerset Railway General Discussion

To bring it back to the WSR, I doubt they normally see those sort of numbers at one station at a time, except possibly gala weekends when a railtour arrives. Once a year maybe at most? Is it reasonable to expect more than 800 people there once a year? Or do you start limiting station access in case the numbers do go over the threshold?

The law is a good idea in principle but badly executed. Wimpole Estate NT near here has 700 car parking spaces which are often filled close to capacity, so therefore falls under the enhanced tier. But 2000 people spread out over a 3000 acre estate is a completely different proposition to, using an above example, 5000 people crammed into Brixton Academy.

From the looks of things, Blackpool air show won't be covered by the law as it's a free event along the sea front and on the beach. Yet 10 miles away at Southport, the air show there, similar set up, but it will have to be in the enhanced tier as it's ticketed entry to the prime spots. It just seems bonkers.

 

From what we’ve been told Pete, apparently there are good reasons (that still haven’t been explained to us) why the NYMR doesn’t do social media, so why am I not surprised that there’s no response?

Said this on another forum and anyone could quite rightly disagree with me because I don’t know the bloke, but if I was told what the weather was like outside by him I’d be sticking my head outside the sodding window to double check.