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lynbarn liked Breva's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
It's in the top RH corner of the blog. As soon as I get some news I will post an update.
Jun 23, 2026 at 9:13 PM -
lynbarn liked Miff's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
All good stuff @pmh_74 I agree 100% I would also say do this hand in hand with B&YV Trust’s new strategy of rebuilding the track (but not operating trains, other than perhaps occasional open days) on the sections they own. This will prove the...
Jun 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM -
lynbarn liked ross's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Hundreds of railway stations were built some distance from the place they purported to serve. After all, whilst those 19th century citizens might have been eager for the potential benefits a railway might bring, they would hardly have wanted to...
Jun 22, 2026 at 3:25 PM -
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...
Jun 21, 2026 at 7:16 PM -
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...
Jun 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM -
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...
Jun 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM -
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....
Jun 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM -
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) ???
Jun 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM -
lynbarn liked ghost's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
:Banghead::Banghead::Banghead:
Jun 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM -
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...
Jun 21, 2026 at 9:49 AM -
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.
Jun 21, 2026 at 9:49 AM -
lynbarn replied to the thread 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
Jun 20, 2026 at 11:03 PM -
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.
Jun 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM -
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...
Jun 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM -
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...
Jun 20, 2026 at 2:40 PM
