Wonderful stuff! Great report from Rob Shelley! Looking forward to seeing this open... well done to Julian and the team for getting to this stage and good luck with the next phase!
Standard Gauge is a lot more expensive to build and maintain. You can see where the rough course of the track bed is on Google Earth. But even if the railway owned the land and the track bed was still there untouched it would cost way to much, even extending it as a narrow gauge railway. Currently you have areas in which it has been developed, built over, bought. And I don't think they would be successful in getting a grant to cover the costs. Consider the cost and time that it is going to take to get to the village (which will probably increase). Hopefully they will be successful in getting a grant to cover the costs. Granted the Ffestiniog Railway Company got a few million from the Government and the Welsh European Funding Office combined to extend their railway by more than 20 miles from Dinas to Porthmadog...at a cost of around £30m...and that was back in 2011! And, since COVID, when operating only 2 or 3 trains a week go along the full length of the line. Having been on the Bala Railway (would recommend a visit) it would be nice if they can get it into Bala. Be a lot more convenient for the bus as well (since TfW changed the bus routes) and drivers.
I read about this (or some other) railway some time ago, I believe. If I've got this right, the line went into the town on tram track set into the cobblestones, though I don't think that that's what they've been given planning permission to do
Really pleased that they have finally got permission to build the extension into town.👍
Wonderful stuff! Great report from Rob Shelley! Looking forward to seeing this open... well done to Julian and the team for getting to this stage and good luck with the next phase!
Good news Bala will get it's station back, can't wait to have a ride
Good news. Great reporting.
Excellent news indeed - well done everyone involved in getting it this far. Just the fundraising to do now...
That's excellent news. Congratulations
Good news. I look forward to riding the train into Bala.
Excellent news.
Good news, I just wish it was all standard gauge which might have helped join up to Corwyn
Standard Gauge is a lot more expensive to build and maintain. You can see where the rough course of the track bed is on Google Earth. But even if the railway owned the land and the track bed was still there untouched it would cost way to much, even extending it as a narrow gauge railway. Currently you have areas in which it has been developed, built over, bought. And I don't think they would be successful in getting a grant to cover the costs. Consider the cost and time that it is going to take to get to the village (which will probably increase). Hopefully they will be successful in getting a grant to cover the costs. Granted the Ffestiniog Railway Company got a few million from the Government and the Welsh European Funding Office combined to extend their railway by more than 20 miles from Dinas to Porthmadog...at a cost of around £30m...and that was back in 2011! And, since COVID, when operating only 2 or 3 trains a week go along the full length of the line. Having been on the Bala Railway (would recommend a visit) it would be nice if they can get it into Bala. Be a lot more convenient for the bus as well (since TfW changed the bus routes) and drivers.
Hurrah, at last.
I read about this (or some other) railway some time ago, I believe. If I've got this right, the line went into the town on tram track set into the cobblestones, though I don't think that that's what they've been given planning permission to do
Go Dave Rutt!