Hopefully a new very light weight section - bridging the fallen piers - can restore the path and cycleway.

 
1967?

 
The question has been raised whether the current station is in the right position to best suit the needs of future housing and ancillary developments. Would a brand new replacement with greater footfall make the more economic sense?

 

Wow!

Thanks for posting that pictorial detail from ... well, Melksham station, unless I'm much mistaken.

I'm not convinced we have that many posters and signs, in total, at Nailsea & Backwell station - which has two full working platforms, being on the main line between Bristol and Taunton.

Give me a bit of time tomorrow morning, and I'll stroll down to NLS to count the relevant signs here.

CfN.

 

Erm ... excuse me ?!?

 
Yep: you're yet another old crock.

 
Thank you for your update here on the Coffee Shop forum, JayMac. 

Bearing in mind my somewhat lifelong interest in the safety (or otherwise) of railway road level and pedestrian foot crossings, I shall investigate that link and probably offer some input to their petition.

 
The inquest into Harry's death will take place in May 2026.

Meanwhile a petition to improve safety at, or close, the 5/13 foot crossing has been set up in Harry's memory.
https://www.change.org/p/improve-safety-at-5-13-railway-foot-crossing-or-close-it-down-in-memory-of-harry-basham

 

I think the pattern of channels has been a lot more variable than that. As the linked "Forgotten Relics" article says, it was intended to protect the bridge foundations by confining the flow to the main span. But the river had other ideas, and immediately started switching its path when the river was in spate (pretty common).

The Duke of Richmond and Gordon went to court to get the GNoSR to do more to block the side arches, a case that was settled without a ruling, so it's not clear what the result was. Equally unclear is why the big local landowner wanted to favour commercial fishing by blocking the river's flood channels, and so cause the river upstream to burst its banks!

In practice the argument seems to have been about how big a flood should be kept in the main channel, before being allowed to spread wider, and who was to rebuild the cills under the side arches after the flood had broken through them. Certainly it looks as if at some stage, probably long before the railway closed, people gave up trying to bully the river. So it's been shifting the stuff that held the piers upright ever since.

 
I want that bus's numberplate.

My initials and my day of birth.

 
I have merged two topics on the subject into one purely in the interests of clarity and ease of future reference for our readers (or whatever phrase that bloke from Nailsea uses) .
 

 
From the BBC:

 
The station opened late this morning too. WMT also seem to be short-staffed around Christmas Sundays

 
In 2024, a timely FOI request to Moray Council.

Mark

http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_155535.html

 
It is ridiculous that we have so many miles of unelectrified railway still, especially when you consider the previous plans that were shelved. In the case of Bath, it isn't as though the preparation hasn't been done - tunnels, bridges and anything else in the was were all cleared ready for the wires to come, as far as the tunnels at St Annes. The IETs all have pantographs at the ready. Extending the OHLE from Thingummy to the far side of Keynsham should be doable on a series of overnight stints. Sydney Gardens might even benefit from not having so much diesel traffic. If not, that could be left without wires but with a need to have the horn sounding a warning until the train can use the leccy again. Alternatively, a bit of extra cash could be spent on something slightly less out of keeping with the Georgian splendour than the standard steelwork.

 

Yes - though I caught - I think it was the 400 - to Svolvaer.  A really bleak bus station with services headed off to some fabulous places.

 
15. Narvik. I already knew the bus was a Svipper route 100 Narvik to Tromsø, and I was sure I'd looked at the obvious place, which is Narvik. But apparently not!

 
Supporting the carol service at Imber Church, apparently.

 
A rather ambiguous note in the 'Line Update' section of JourneyCheck:

Individual journeys are listed as "not calling at Worcester Foregate Street".

 
Yes.

Also, it was curious to watch several passengers off the up service at Warminster the other day cross to the down side and walk past the open exit by the footbridge to the 'Way Out' notice for the booking office exit to find that that that was closed: they retraced their steps to the very visible side exit.

Meanwhile I couldn't locate the ticket machine, then found I was looking at it. To passengers entering the station, it presents an anonymous grey flank that I'd dismissed as a piece of lineside equipment.

Mark

 
Are there too many signs at our stations - even the smallest ones?



Are they all necessary?

Are they all correct?

Do they all apply at this station?

Will passengers have time to read them?

Are they written in understandable English?

Will people be able to find the answer to any question even if the answer id there?

Are they all legible when needed?

Is anything missing?

 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1m87jlv97ro


Photographs in the article.

 

Oops - 13, 14, and 15 not yet correctly identified - 16 is indeed Newcastle Central

13.


14.


15.

 

 
Sunday Dec 14
The 1P50 11:57 Gt Malvern - Paddington has been terminated at Moreton-in-M, following "multiple engine issues".

According to RTT this was rostered as a 9 coach IET, 800314.

The following 1P54 (from Worcester) runnning 51 late. RTT shows this as stopping at Moreton for only 2 minutes. Pretty smart if it had to pick up all the passengers from the previous service.

I'm relying here on the online systems - any eyewitnesses?

 

Yes, and there has to be limitations otherwise a small charter operator would instantly go under if it was the cause of a significant incident.

 
Erm, grahame: there are also 13, 14, 15 and 16 in your original post here. 

I know, because I got 16 right! 

 
Its structures (occasionally) repurposed in surprising and popular ways.


https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/cottage/Cotswolds-Northamptonshire-Coton-Fm/The-Tunnel-at-Bridge-Lake-Farm-and-Fishery-1132709.html

Not, though the series of three bridges towards the top of the climb out of the Cherwell valley, structures allegedly nicknamed by loco crew as 'Faith', 'Hope' and 'Charity'.

Surprised the staff featured in the film are so prepared to smile for the camera.

Mark

 
If you have Google Earth, you can use the menu 'View/Historical imagery' for the bridge site, allowing you to leaf through a striking set of aerial images from c.1985 to the present day, showing that from 2020 the river's main channel at the bridge switched to the west bank of the Spey for what appears to be the first time in the history of the structure. It may be that 2023's Storm Babet prompted some of this.

This might prove to be a reminder that some events that we like to think of occuring at rates that we'd think of as 'Geological' with respect to time spans can actually happen quickly - long periods of quiescence and then a short spell of rapid change.

Mark

 

Thanks, Chris ... and I have "bumped" it on my social media ... an excuse to post more pics too