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Trawsfynydd and Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by WickhamofWare, Aug 21, 2009.

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  1. michaelh

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    Which are the two who do not use volunteers at all?
     
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    Vale of Rheidol and Brecon?
     
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    and Snowdon (and maybe Bala?
     
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    The Bala Lake Railway is operated by volunteers to the best of my knowledge.

    Bob.
     
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    When it did run at Caerphilly 28 was operating on a short line on a reduced boiler pressure. It wasn’t in particularly good health. (Granted that’s a better situation than now but not a long-term sustainable position).

    With regards to the Manor, Dinmore never ran, although Odney did for a year. It was like running a Ferrari up and down the drive, the Gwili was only 1.5 miles long then. Still it was great fun...

    I can recall 9642, which was the other pannier?

    The point is though we’ve got to look forward, what’s done is done. At least there is some recognition that 28 and the P & B pannier need to be operating to raise the profile. The P & B go all out for the BR stuff once a year at Galas so there is some chance to see motive power of this nature in South Wales (and be suitably inspired)

    Regards

    Matt
     
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    Not Bala, but I think the Llanberis Lake is a purely paid venture.

    John
     
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    VoR has a lot of volunteer input
     
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    Bala defo has vols - I know one.
     
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    I forgot Snowdon! Not that they actually run many steam trains nowadays :(
     
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    7754 or 9629 I think
     
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  11. Pete Thornhill

    Pete Thornhill Resident of Nat Pres Staff Member Administrator Moderator Friend

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    A post along with its associated replies have been removed from public view following various reports. The contents is under moderator review, in the meantime play nicely please while we deal with the issues raised so we can avoid locking the thread (the subject of which has nothing to do with the reported posts).
     
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    From reading everything on the many Facebook pages over the last few days, it's been said that Network Rail have removed the license for the preservationists to work on the existing piece of line. Them wanting to do a feasibility study into rebuilding the rest of the line makes sense now!
     
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    Sorry but IMO this scheme has never made any sense ..... and even less now.
    Ray.
     
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    Had a read of the facebook group this morning

    rather interesting , not least who has the money raised via crowd funding for the 08 and 2-Hap . It seems contributors have not had anything returned

    A second thread discusses the licence revocation and who sent it . replies from those involved are ambiguous in the extreme
     
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    Yes, I had a good read through that too. It seems as if, regardless of whether or not the railway should be reopened, those currently running the operation certainly should not be the ones to do it.
     
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    those who are supposedly officers of the society are all going not me , nothing to do with me .
     
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    All seems very bizarre. The acting chairman of the society seems to have been pushed out the loop. There was a post quite a while back on the Society's page by a guy called Neil Parry (who seemed to be in charge of the 414 thing, but now denies all knowledge of it or being involved in it) saying that this Facebook page is dead, and the acting chairman is nothing at all to do with the project, then linking another Facebook group to use!

    The secretary of the society / company or whichever is the only one who seems to be addressing what's been asked in a proper manner (using spelling and grammar too!!). I'd hazard a guess that the rest of his board level colleagues have left him to sort out the mess and gone to hide somewhere!
     
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    A completely predictable and inevitable outcome given who was involved and the way they were going about things.
     
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    It's very unfortunate that things have gone this way.

    Sadly the 'pioneer spirit' and 'getting away with it' of the early preservation era just do not work now. You need to be well organised.
    There have been several instances of failed crowdfunding projects effectively stealing people's money recently. How long until one makes the national news and gives us all a bad name?
     
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    How much money was actually raised?
     
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