Bala lake Railway.

Video with the latest details. Please comment if you want to see the extension complete

 

Application approved!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jpy6yzl6zo

 

Great news.

 

Bit worried about the caveat at the end....
So it's a 'Yes, if '

 

I wouldn’t have thought the caveat will make too much of a difference, as they’re going to have to do a bit of fundraising before they can start work anyway.

 

1. My point is that with the new government cutting expenditure on infrastructure, it may be (I don't have knowledge of the project in question that has to start) that it will never start. It is a risk, I don't know how big.

 

Pleased that "permission" has been granted, even with the proviso that the waste water plant upgrade "ought" to be dons first.

Plenty of fundraising and other precursor works ahead ...

 

In answer to Breva above my understanding they aren't relying on gift money but doing a significant fundraising effort. With the tracked already done I assume there will be nothing to stop laying track there ? As long as people don't alight there?

 

The work at the treatment works will be delivered by Dwr Cymru as part of their asset management plan and will not be reliant on any Governmrnt funding.
In terms of the trackbed, when I was there a few weeks ago there was no trackbed. Allowance has been made along the shore of the lake but there is still quite alot of work to do to get the track from the current formation to that point.

 

Indeed, in fact the Dwr Cymru works are already taking place, started late last year

 

Even allowing that the Dwr Cymru works are complete by next Easter, as has been said the trackbed will need to be set out and graded before you can think about laying track, I am not sure if there is any other civil engineering work that needs to be done before that can happen.

That said I welcome this news and hopefully by 2026/7 the extension will have been built and in operation.

 

FYI: Dŵr Cymru. Makes no sense with the short vowel.

 

I think your timescales are optimistic. There is a significant change to a public highway and a cantilever bridge across a river to be built. The paperwork alone will keep everyone busy for 18 months.