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Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by threelinkdave, Aug 20, 2014.

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  1. Dead Sheep

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    A great and rather upbeat assessment of the commuting pilot.

     
    Dead Sheep, Oct 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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    It is to be hoped that the decision about future operation will take due account of those considerations, which all imply that long-term viability should be significantly better than indicated by the passenger numbers during the trial.
     
    MellishR, Oct 25, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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    I’d have said ‘could’ rather than ‘should’ - awkward thing about that is it might suggest the case hasn’t been proven so what’s needed is funding for another, longer, trial.
     
    gwralatea, Oct 27, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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    Latest I have heard, is a proposal to run the Parry People Mover on service linking Bewdley to Stourbridge Town. That would of course require a new set of points at Stourbridge Junction and removal of the small maintenance shed, possibly to Bewdley.
     
    Dead Sheep, Oct 27, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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    From what I've heard of that, I suspect there may be some minor issues over crashworthiness to deal with, which are why the Stourbridge Town branch is locked off so rigorously from the main network.
     
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    They also only weigh about 12 tonnes so will struggle to activate track circuits. There's also the small matter of them only being capable of 20mph.
     
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