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Residents cut down a wood on Bristol railway line without permission to improve their views
Residents of a street in Bristol are being investigated after they hired a tree surgeon and chopped down dozens of trees along a railway line to improve the view from the backs of their house.

Network Rail said the residents of Cromwell Road did not have permission to send the tree surgeon company onto the embankment next to Montpelier station, and said the incident was serious enough for a full-blown investigation to be launched.

Furious residents living nearby have been left shocked after discovering their neighbours had clubbed together to hire a tree surgeon company, and sent them onto Network Rail land on Wednesday and Thursday last week to start cutting down a large swathe of woodland.

Article goes on. And on. Source: Bristol Post (https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/residents-cut-down-wood-bristol-1129002)

I'll just leave this here
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/residents-cut-down-wood-bristol-1129002

I believe a couple of Japanese soldiers were found in amongst all the foliage, who surrendered after a brief standoff once they had been convinced that the war was over.

On a lighter note, was anyone else amused that the work was coordinated by a Jonty Cutting?

Let’s hope network rail logged the incident correctly, and if not perhaps they should stump up some cash to employ some extra staff and then turn a new leaf to make sure a log is correctly completed

Jonty is a fairly unusual forename.

Jonty is a fairly unusual forename. His brother though has an even more unusual one. Sonning.

If I were the people responsible I would think long and hard before trespassing on The network again or getting a contractor to do so for them !
Some ,if not all of them might well be waiting for a knock on the door from the good folks of the BTP, as it is.

Then there's his German cousin, the barber: Herr Cutting.

I wonder if this could have been avoided had NR undertaken some tree surgery of their own?

The foliage did look to be massively overgrown, it's not unreasonable to want a reasonable amount of light in one's garden?

There is a covenant on father in laws property I’m dealing with at the moment that requires him to maintain foliage and not block light from the neighbour of the adjoining property. Is this a generic term or not? If so NR potentially we’re falling foul of it.

I was wondering how long it would be before someone spotted Mr Cutting.

Bristol rail embankment: 'No action' after trees felled

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Network rail disputes claims by one local resident that they had given permission for the trees to be felled

Network Rail says it will not take any action against those responsible for cutting down trees on a railway embankment in Bristol without permission.

Trees were felled opposite Montpelier railway station in January.

Local resident Cecilia Farring said she had permission to carry out the work, a claim Network Rail denied.

A spokesperson for the firm said: "The embankment in Montpelier will be tidied and no further action will be taken."

Ms Farring said she had been campaigning for 20 years for the trees to be removed.  She said the firm told her it would send a list of approved tree surgeons but never did, "so we organised for registered tree surgeons to do it".

Network Rail insisted it had not given permission for the work and would be investigating.  "Safety is our priority and nobody is permitted to access the railway unless they have the proper permission," it said.

Not forgetting his unusually small Welsh nephew - Cutting Bach.

And welcome please - the next arrivals at the Montpelier Tree Surgeons' Ball - Connie Fir and her husband, Douglas...

....leave cash in honesty box...

A sort of follow up from the Bristol post today.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/emails-show-network-rail-panic-1627888

.....so why hadn't NR been cutting the trees back I wonder? Aren't they currently trying to get permission to fell just about every tree standing near a railway line, mainly because they've allowed them to grow out of control?

It is thought the trees prevented landslips on the steep embankment down to the railway line, and acted as a noise buffer against the noise of the trains.

Perhaps the article give the answer:


This is a complex area of geotechnical engineering so I cannot be sure what the effect would be in this particular instance.  If we get a slip next time we have a wet winter then we might find out.

Two tone horns hooting a G and E flat mournfully are becoming a thing of the past. I suggest a special Montpelier minor version where the horns sound an interval a seventh and a augmented octave (octave plus half a tone) . I've just tried it on the piano and middle C to B above back to middle C and up to C sharp.
There again,  I could do it on the organ and choose the temperament ( most modern digital organs offer at least 8 of those)  that makes it even more excruciating ! Looking for an emoticon that is covering ears, but couldn't find one, so this one will have to do.  >:(

I could do it on the organ

It's also a complex area of environmental acoustics. But... surely the people who would suffer most from any increase in noise will be the very people who instigated the felling of the trees? A slight irony there, one feels.