tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post4176486047717629585..comments2024-01-17T07:03:57.842+00:00Comments on The Mad Ranter: SlabbingFlipChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-67489065962038683052007-12-06T09:09:00.000+00:002007-12-06T09:09:00.000+00:00Yet again it seems we have delays in Blogger so I'...Yet again it seems we have delays in Blogger so I'll re-type my comment and hope it appears.<BR/><BR/>The price is annoying to say the least I'm sure it would be more if the Leapgate foundations weren't already in place.<BR/><BR/>It would be nice to get the three towns linked via the SVR I'm sure it would be a boost, but of course I realise the priority is getting the existing line running again after the floods.<BR/><BR/>No doubt we'll get a line just after we get a by-pass.FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-45412460156801327602007-12-04T13:20:00.000+00:002007-12-04T13:20:00.000+00:00Thanks for the link. I will circulate it round my ...Thanks for the link. I will circulate it round my gang.<BR/><BR/>Wearing another hat now - that of Liaison Officer for the Stoubridge Line User Group, or SLUG, yes I was aware of this ideal. I read recently that WFDC have commissioned a feasability study to reopen the line to Hartlebury but I fear that at £2-5m per mile the business case will show this to be a none starter even using the Parry People Mover that has just been ordered for the Stourbridge Junction to Stourbridge Town line.<BR/><BR/>The other comment on extending the SVR from Bewdley to Burlish is technically possible but unlikely although extensions at the Bridgnorth end keep resurfacing. But lets get the line open again from Bewdley to Bridgnorth - with luck and a stong tail-wind Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade by February half-term and full line Good Friday.Don Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08527913650847335006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-37368280591254044142007-12-04T09:04:00.000+00:002007-12-04T09:04:00.000+00:00Heh I don't know if you caught this link from DK.O...Heh I don't know if you caught this <A HREF="http://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2007/11/30/health-safety-and-work/" REL="nofollow">link</A> from DK.<BR/><BR/>On a separate note do you know anything about the talk of opening a line from Stourport to Hartlebury? I'm presuming it'd be the old Leapgate line with a station at the end of Millfields Road. Someone said it'd be nice if the SVR was extended from Kiddy to us as well.FlipChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09449939046593105926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36939759.post-89989300393020463222007-12-03T21:58:00.000+00:002007-12-03T21:58:00.000+00:00I know the feeling. I arrived at the Severn Valley...I know the feeling. I arrived at the Severn Valley Railway at 7.30am on Saturday, when its a Santa day with trains running every 15 minutes to be told could I go and change a sleeper. Detail a gang to go and find a suitable one - drag it back to Kidderminster station. <BR/><BR/>Guard - "You are not putting that on my clean train."<BR/><BR/>Wait for next train, put it in the van with all the push chairs and buggies. Get to Bewdley and negotiate for train to drop off said sleeper at the right location. Wait for all the push chairs and buggies to be unloaded with mums and dads. Move train to selected point and push sleeper off train on to trackside. <BR/><BR/>Walk back to store to get 2 shovels, 2 pick axes and 2 jacks to lift the track up. Walk back to tell signalman what we are doing. Walk back to site and then wait for next two trains to pass. Dig out old sleeper - time for next two trains. Insert new sleeper and re-pack it before next two trains arrive. Complete the packing. Watch the next two trains go over new sleeper. Report task completed to signal box. Take tools back to store. Then in true British workman style brew up and down mug of tea. Then catch the next train back and climb over all the push chairs and buggies and return to Kidderminster and sign off at about the same as you are finishingDon Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08527913650847335006noreply@blogger.com