Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

Ok, so they’re not actually accurate for the L&B then.
Yes these bridges will be expensive, but there’s no point in throwing around numbers that are plucked from the air or from other projects.
Let’s keep things factual!

 

Yeah just another Colin comment, just like the one he made many years ago about knowing of some old carriages for sale, carriages that not only set up the Lynbarn railway at the Milky Way which paid the mortgage on Woody Bay at the time but others that were refurbished to give Woody Bay rolling stock to actually get open and start taking fare paying passengers so a 'Colin comment' actually helped get the L&BR up and running in those early days when they had no money yet achieved so much, without guys like Colin there easily could not have been a reborn L&B.

 

Are there not major engineering works required south of Blackmoor Gate as well though? Deviation round the reservoir, rebuilding the public road currently occupying part of the trackbed, and a missing viaduct spring to mind. Any cost estimates for these to compare with the other works mentioned?