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  1. Miff gefällt pmh_74s Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    To be honest I wouldn't worry too much about those sorts of objections. The planners will read them, but the decision will be based on what the application says, not what someone believes it says when they apply conspiracy theories and read...

    27 August 2026 um 16:40
  2. Miff gefällt jncs Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    And here is the promised track laying visual summary: Section 5c Overview - 6 Aug 26 The plain images (in addition to the several pan- and zoom-able images) are worth enlarging; lots of interesting details to be seen there (e.g. stacked...

    27 August 2026 um 15:13
  3. Miff gefällt Flying Phils Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    It is good to get the regular updates and see the steady progress of this project - Well Done to all involved.

    27 August 2026 um 15:12
  4. Miff antwortete auf das Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    I think Fireline’s post shows it’s rather more than the paperwork. There’s also ballasting & tamping of the whole line. Installing & commissioning the signalling (both rail and road) for 3 level crossings, plus a passing loop and a terminus...

    27 August 2026 um 09:45
  5. Miff gefällt Brevas Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    When we first relaid the track we saw all these drainage ditches alongside the miniscule embankments, and some people thought we ought to clear them. Then we realised they were borrow ditches, left and right, to win material for the little...

    27 August 2026 um 08:52
  6. Miff gefällt MellishRs Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    Thank you.

    27 August 2026 um 08:50
  7. Miff antwortete auf das Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    @MellishR - follow the link in @jnc 's post above and you'll find the answer, at least for that section of the railway. No doubt RVR'll prefer to source such materials locally whenever they can.

    26 August 2026 um 17:26
  8. Miff gefällt Firelines Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    The intention is that it will be first used in 2028. I suspect that the track will be complete before then. However, there's fencing, wiring, tree planting, crew training, route proving and a whole host of imponderables to be dealt with before...

    26 August 2026 um 17:15
  9. Miff antwortete auf das Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    I guess one reason for the hopscotching is the need for temporary road-vehicle access to locations requiring major civil engineering works including several bridge, culvert & embankment sites. Track can then be laid on a section once road...

    26 August 2026 um 09:45
  10. Miff gefällt jncs Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    Oh, right; my memory is failing again. Your post a while back indicated that it was the Junction Road one that was (then) planned for November; my brain clearly swapped 'A21' for 'Junction Road' (probably because that would be in order, along the...

    25 August 2026 um 19:20
  11. Miff antwortete auf das Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    @jnc - In the August update video Mike said Junction Rd. crossing works are planned for the end of October; and the A21 crossing hoped for in the spring of '27. [MEDIA]

    25 August 2026 um 13:54
  12. Miff antwortete auf das Thema Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    Very early in my career I worked for a small(ish) manufacturing company. At a meeting about new products the MD summed up the discussion as “so what we need is a Cheap S**t Unit for the export market”. The R&D man wrote down ‘CSU’ and took it...

    24 August 2026 um 23:18
  13. Miff gefällt Steves Beitrag in dem Thema Rother Valley Railway.

    Not the first time it's been suggested. When the M1 came to Leeds the highways authority didn't want to build a bridge over the Middleton Railway due to the cost and asked what the alternatives were. The then chairman of Middleton (Fred Youell)...

    23 August 2026 um 22:47