Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

I am not sure if it was a written agreement that EA/YVT would only undertake the purchase of the trackbed south of Wistlandpound. But I consider that this may be the wrong place to have drawn the line.

I know that we now have Blackmoor PLC, but I can't help but think we should have changed that line to the A39 bridge at Blackmoor so the Trust deals with ENPA while EA deals with NDC.

Blackmoor could then become the joint meeting point between the two parts of the Railway, which, in turn could generate some money to help in a small way to rebuild part of the railway.

 

From the Facebook page, Giles Perkins has said that the slides and a video of the meeting will be posted shortly. A good step!

If there's going to be an 'Appeal Yes/No' question, then in order to make an informed decision, I want to see:

- the grounds for appeal,
- the costs of the appeal
- an assessment of the likelihood of success, and
- a business case for the CFL project.

We've been here before with the successive red line and s73 fiascos which were both more than £100k and which delivered nothing other than opprobrium.

As it stands at the moment, I see no sensible grounds for appeal, and the business case was never been made clear - it seeemed to be 'longer railway good' which is not the basis for spending rather more than £1m that the Trust doesn't appear to have.

Time, as I said upthread, for everyone to stop, to get a neutrally chaired meeting of all of the L&B family, and to jointly produce the full array of options. The last thing we need is an ill-informed knee-jerk appeal.

 

I am not sure if this is something that comes under RM3 or not, but I found this YouTube which might help with safety clearance at a point on a railway

 

I don’t think this is a fair or appropriate question for Trustees to put to the membership. We are unable to have the kind of background information required to judge the merits or otherwise, and I would not expect the trustees to publish all they know for good reason. This feels like a shift of responsibility that I don’t find comfortable.