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ross reageerde op het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
A carriage shed is a funny thing to build- it needs a lot of narrow portal frames to house a string of carriages. In most comparable applications, you'd want vehicles side by side, you don't want to have to lift out the spud lifter, then the...
15 dec 2025 om 18:55 -
ross vond Old Kent Biker's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
... or how far into the future they are projecting? A state that will be fine for 3-5 years won't necessarily be fit for 10-20. Regardless, what is done is done. We need to move on from where we are, not worry about where we should be.
15 dec 2025 om 18:12 -
ross vond Petra Wilde's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I would rather doubt that give the project update, which says: "This has been a complex project with far more work expected than originally envisaged. As trackwork was removed to enable below ground construction it quickly became evident that...
13 dec 2025 om 12:09 -
ross vond Petra Wilde's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
That all sounds pretty likely. There is also the point that the context is important. If trying to get a project over the line and secure agreement and funding for it to go ahead, proposers have a huge incentive to quote the lower end of the...
11 dec 2025 om 23:24 -
ross vond RailWest's post leuk in het topic Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
…..This is surely one reason why so many projects on the big railway end up costing more than the initial estimate. (I don’t know if that is applicable to this particular small project on the L and B, but it’s something that applies to many new...
11 dec 2025 om 23:24
