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MellishR vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Yes, but a local journalist can write what ever they choose to generate clicks, particularly if they decide actually reviewing the primary evidence sounds too much like hard work! In other words - given the original report or DevonLive as my...
26 jun 2026 om 08:43 -
MellishR vond DaveE's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Just want to point out incase you have never actually used the 310, it stops at the Fox and Goose, and also Bodley Lane and the Village stores and anywhere else you pretty much shove your hand out and the driver can safely stop. Many locals get...
26 jun 2026 om 08:43 -
MellishR vond RailWest's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
AFAIK the application is still in draft form, so I doubt anyone on here knows what it contains. One would hope however that those involved with its drafting have learnt from the past mistakes and will make renewed efforts to get it as...
26 jun 2026 om 08:41 -
MellishR vond Miff's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
It should be borne in mind that in any planning application residents’ objections are not the be-all and end-all, and Parracombe residents do not have some kind of veto. The previous application was refused not because of residents’ objections...
26 jun 2026 om 08:41 -
MellishR vond RailWest's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The 'problem' - if there really is one - with any current PE extension proposal is that quite clearly it will be a terminus rather than a through station (halt) for such time until the L&BR can acquire the 'missing' sections of trackbed in order...
26 jun 2026 om 08:38 -
MellishR vond Old Kent Biker's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Do bear in mind that PP was GRANTED in 2018 (see the archive, at https://www.lynton-rail.org.uk/story/planning-application-news for more details) to reinstate the line from Killington Lane to Parracombe as part of the project to continue to...
26 jun 2026 om 08:38 -
MellishR vond 35B's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
On a detail, planning officers did not reject Cricket Field Lane. Councillors did, after careful consideration, on the basis that it didn’t follow policy and where objectors could demonstrate fundamental weaknesses in the proposal in front of...
26 jun 2026 om 08:37 -
MellishR reageerde op het topic LTM Sarah Siddons & 1938 Tube Stock Metropolitan Line trips 24-26/7/26.
Interesting that it says "choose from three different routes along the Metropolitan line" if there's only Amersham-Harrow and back or Amersham-Watford and back. Maybe some of the runs do all three sides of the Watford triangle?
26 jun 2026 om 08:24 -
MellishR vond acorb's post leuk in het topic FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Quite remarkable statement really given the size of the FR's fleet, only 3 locos are in long term storage, everything else is either active or under repair. I remember reading something that it is current policy to keep locos operational, as...
24 jun 2026 om 11:33 -
MellishR vond meeee's post leuk in het topic FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Welsh Pony has been repaired however it still needs it's annual boiler exam before it can enter service again. Blanche is stopped now pending a bottom end overhaul. James Spooner is now in the works having stay repairs. Likely to be back out...
24 jun 2026 om 11:32 -
MellishR vond LMS2968's post leuk in het topic Bahamas.
The two systems work on very different principles and the mass of air to be moved in a vacuum system is much greater than in an air system, so it requires more time to, for instance, fill and drain a cylinder. Look tat the thickness of an air...
24 jun 2026 om 11:16 -
MellishR vond LMS2968's post leuk in het topic Bahamas.
The different air / vacuum (air pressure in reverse) are compensated by the use of bigger cylinders for a vacuum system so equalising the brake effort. A vacuum brake can be just as effective as an air system although slower acting, hence the...
24 jun 2026 om 11:15
