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« on: March 26, 2025, 17:51:15 »
I expect this one to be resolved within seconds:

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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2025, 18:06:50 »
NOT Nailsea & Backwell: to be fair, our steps here are maintained to a much higher standard than those.  Roll Eyes
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2025, 18:12:00 »
Looks like the steps when I visited Breich a few years back when it was suggested closure.  Must go back.
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2025, 21:37:43 »
Well now there’s a conundrum… it’s not Breich, and it’s not not Nailsea and Backwell!
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« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2025, 06:19:35 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 26, 2025, 21:37:43
Well now there’s a conundrum… it’s not Breich, and it’s not not Nailsea and Backwell!

More seriously, but still a blindish guess - Stan Drew's Road?
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« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2025, 08:14:23 »
 Well it's definitely not Pilning!...
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« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2025, 08:22:01 »
Judging from the rust, somewhere close to sea spray.
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« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2025, 08:37:17 »
Some members seem to have missed the double negative! It’s not not Nailsea and Backwell, despite Chris from Nailsea’s assertion.

Due to some major building work, the Squirrels are currently living in the most triangular village in North Somerset (another quiz - where might that be?). NLS▸ (Nailsea & Backwell station) is our most convenient local station for the duration.

I was shocked at the state of the stairs - surely they will be condemned soon?
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« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2025, 11:50:28 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 27, 2025, 08:37:17
Some members seem to have missed the double negative! It’s not not Nailsea and Backwell, despite Chris from Nailsea’s assertion.

Due to some major building work, the Squirrels are currently living in the most triangular village in North Somerset (another quiz - where might that be?). NLS▸ (Nailsea & Backwell station) is our most convenient local station for the duration.

I was shocked at the state of the stairs - surely they will be condemned soon?

Oh - I stand (humbly) corrected.  Embarrassed

Failand - very definitely a triangle.  Grin

If someone would provide the necessary £1million plus, we could have a new access ramp, bridge and lifts to both platforms ...  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2025, 19:28:29 »
Not sure where the steps are but they look like the next substantial storm could cause them ten grands worth of improvements.
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« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2025, 19:38:46 »
They are at Nailsea & Backwell - I stand admonished (and ankle deep in rust).  Embarrassed
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« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2025, 20:06:56 »
Or Nailsea and Blackwell as a certain Michael Portaloo kept calling it throughout the programme in the first series of Great British Railways journeys some 20 years or so ago...
Had he bought his Bradshaws guide at a certain well known bookseller in Oxford ??
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« Reply #12 on: Yesterday at 21:39:51 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on March 27, 2025, 19:38:46
They are at Nailsea & Backwell - I stand admonished (and ankle deep in rust).  Embarrassed

Has my honourable friend the member for Failand returned to Nailsea & Backwell in the past four days?  I rather think he will be as surprised as I was, this afternoon.

The entire stairway up to platform 2 has now been completely closed off with Heras fencing and plastic mesh netting - not even a ferret could get up there.  The only access to platform 2 is up the ramp, accessed from further along Station Close.

I can only surmise that someone at GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) or NR» (Network Rail - home page) read Red Squirrel's original post and was so embarrassed that they immediately decided to do something to rectify the situation.

Unfortunately, I did not have the means to take pictures this afternoon, but will do so at the next opportunity.

CfN.  Wink
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« Reply #13 on: Yesterday at 22:48:27 »
Blimey!
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« Reply #14 on: Yesterday at 23:00:59 »
That was exactly my reaction, Red Squirrel, when I drove my daughter down to the station to get a train to Cardiff this afternoon.  I'm fairly sure all that fencing wasn't there when I drove past the station on Monday, on my way up to the Backwell tip.  Shocked
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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