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lynbarn liked Olde576's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I say this with more about how the L&B didn’t exactly suit itself well with locals the first go around: be it by a lack of proximity as was the case with Woody Bay or Lynton’s stations to the towns and villages they were supposed to serve, or...
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lynbarn liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
A functioning railway to an (albeit truncated) terminus at PE will bring various benefits IMHO, not least a sense of long-overdue extension. At least then we will have a better base from which to plan an extension to Blackmoor rather than the...
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lynbarn liked Mark Thompson's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Time can be, and is, a great changer. And with the L&BRly we're talking in increments of a century. What I'm trying to say is that just because something is how it is now, it will not remain so indefinitely. But sometimes, one does need infinite...
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lynbarn liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
To be fair, this thread has been running since 2009, and has 818 pages, so it is perhaps a bit much to expect anyone to remember or read through all of it, and not everyone is within easy distance of the L&B to visit 'in the flesh' so to speak....
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lynbarn liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Indeed :-( Do people never actually (a) read what has already been written on the subject so many times and (b) go and look at the area and appreciate the impractical nature of their suggestions (however well-meant they may be) ???
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lynbarn liked ghost's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
:Banghead::Banghead::Banghead:
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lynbarn liked Olde576's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I agree, at least in the sense that this doesn't need to be an "Us versus them" sort of situation. The important thing is that the land is the L&B owns the land into Parracombe, and can be a good presence within the community if/when trains get...
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lynbarn liked ghost's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
It was a suggestion from @DcB for a solution to the Parracombe situation.
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lynbarn odgovara u temi Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Why would we want to move it anyway? When we already own all the trackbed from Killington Lane around to the Parracombe halt site
20. Lipanj 2026. u 23:03 -
lynbarn liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Quite true, but...in the longer term with a reconstructed line southwards to, and through, PE then - not being part of the original trackbed - it will no longer be needed anyway.
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lynbarn liked ghost's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
With respect, that’s not really evidence. We all know about one particular landowner, but I don’t think it is possible to assume that they are influencing others without some actual evidence of it happening. Moving the railway offline in the...
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lynbarn liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
In short, No - The Local Plan safeguards the former route for the railway, it does not extend to a major deviation around the village. The Cricket Field Lane terminus extension failed because it was creating something new, rather than...
20. Lipanj 2026. u 14:40 -
lynbarn liked ghost's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Could you provide evidence for this claim please?
20. Lipanj 2026. u 14:39 -
lynbarn odgovara u temi Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I must have missed this last time; the short answer is yes, it needs to. I was at Woody Bay the other weekend for the AGM, and I overheard the comment that the L&BR is the marmite project: you either love it or hate it.
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lynbarn liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The new relationship between the two trusts is very much still being developed, so I'm not sure how you can really understand yet how it might work, but regardless, as I've said before, no part of the project can buy anything unless and until the...
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