RMweb Premium Kris Posted February 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2020 The Helston railway have (or are) putting in a bid to get money to fund a study into the reopening of the line to Gwinear road (and I assume reopening a station on the main line as well). https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/18257628.helston-railway-bids-study-connect-trains-gwinear/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 May be a few issues with one of the intermediate stations at Nancegollan having flats and a industrial estate on the track bed! Praze has missing overbridges too! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve W Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 On 24/02/2020 at 21:27, kernowtim said: May be a few issues with one of the intermediate stations at Nancegollan having flats and a industrial estate on the track bed! Praze has missing overbridges too! https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/18785310.helston-railway-wins-76-000-continue-reopening-branch-line/ Lucky chaps. It won't get them to Gwinear Road, but will keep them going in the right direction for the time being and give a chance of coming up with an idea to solve the bridge and industrial estate problems. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 It's going to be a long winter for some of the smaller railways especially those that go to nowhere and back again. The larger ones are having their own problems so where does that leave the small ones, those with little resources? There is always the problem of built on ROW and it will take a lot more to reach Grampound road if ever that was possible and suppose they did, whereabouts do they terminate and is there room for facilities there supposing planning permission could be granted. Same at Helston, they can't stop in someone's ploughed field! Good luck to them, but we'll see what the situation is when summer comes and whether covid lets up enough to enable normal service. The moneys got to come from somewhere! Brian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikcdab Posted October 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 10, 2020 Well, jolly good luck to them. Not sure I'll see it in my lifetime! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Not Captain Kernow Posted October 10, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 10, 2020 1 hour ago, brianusa said: It's going to be a long winter for some of the smaller railways especially those that go to nowhere and back again. The larger ones are having their own problems so where does that leave the small ones, those with little resources? There is always the problem of built on ROW and it will take a lot more to reach Grampound road if ever that was possible and suppose they did, whereabouts do they terminate and is there room for facilities there supposing planning permission could be granted. Same at Helston, they can't stop in someone's ploughed field! Good luck to them, but we'll see what the situation is when summer comes and whether covid lets up enough to enable normal service. The moneys got to come from somewhere! Brian. If they reach Grampound Road it will be nothing short of a miracle! Let alone Gwinear Road! However the funding they have received is nothing to do with this and is actually related to the COVID situation, which Bodmin and the West Somerset have also been successful in receiving a grant. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 (edited) "What's in a name? A station by any other name, etc., etc! Brian Edited October 10, 2020 by brianusa 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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