Red squiggle sounds like something you'd put on to a hot dog....

Mabel's song from G&S 's operetta seems most apt for FGW^▸ (First Great Western)....'Poor, wandering one ....!'

Oh, the 'Depps' FGW^▸ (First Great Western) will sink to,  just to keep the 'crews'  on their toes.

No chance of muddling up Helena Bonham Carter and the Ribena ladies in Pirates of the Paddington then !

Have I unleashed the dogs of war for more piractical cunning and punning ?

And there was little old me getting Alvechurch confused with Adlestrop !

Still some of the stations in Flanders and Swann's 'Slow Train' have now re-opened !

Love the typo 'dafty' for safety ! So who do all the sane customers travel with ??

Indeed, you never know. But if she does, will she be 'away with the fairies again? '. Perhaps she will be the Wiltshire version of Titania .....

I think the road sign crew were thirsty and really wanted to paint 'Pub Stop', but one of them was dyslexic ....

Lytham as opposed to St Annes??

Any More like this ?

A road overbridge is a most expensive  sledgehammer to crack a nut and would be the most dreadful visual intrusion especially for the residents of Haven Lodge nursing home opposite.

The latest proposal of a rail under road cutting as proposed in the North Somerset Times this week seems to conveniently  forget the fact that this part of Portishead is barely above sea level. When  road work was done, earlier this year, near Gordano School, you could see sea water at the bottom of a ten foot trench !

It would seem that the only way to make the ORR^» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) see sense about this, is to get them out of their ivory sidings and hire a train to bring them down so they can see for themselves that a level crossing really is the only solution. Surely that would be a far more effective and cheaper use of the ^50.000  earmarked by the Town Council, than yet MORE consultations that only ever seem to make money for the consultants, and just delays things even further!

TRANSPORT chiefs have agreed to present a case to the Office of the Rail Regulator for the use of a level crossing at Portishead's new railway station. The MetroWest project team, which is leading the drive to get trains running from the town again by 2019, confirmed the move this week.

It follows pressure from Portishead Town Council which has been campaigning for the original site for the station ^ at Harbour Road ^ and a level crossing to be reconsidered as part of the MetroWest project.

Harbour Road was earmarked 20 years ago for a new station as part of the masterplan drawn up for the Portishead Quays development.

But it was later ruled out after rail regulators said no further level crossings should be built in the UK^▸ (United Kingdom), except in "exceptional circumstances".


In a consultation held as part of the MetroWest scheme, three sites ^ two at Quays Avenue and one at Serbert Way ^ were put forward for a station. Town councillors wrote to the local enterprise partnership earlier this month asking for it to appoint a team of consultants to work on a business case for a level crossing ^ and allocated ^50,000 towards the cost.

A MetroWest spokesman said: "The MetroWest project team will be preparing the necessary details to submit a case to the Office of Rail Regulation regarding the possibility of 'exceptional circumstances' to allow a level crossing at Quays Avenue. It is expected that the draft submission will be prepared by the end of October, but at this stage the timescale is not fixed."

The ORR^» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) has said to make an informed decision it expects the applicant to provide "sufficiently compelling" evidence to demonstrate there is an exceptional need.

The news that a business case is being drawn up for a level crossing has been welcomed by local councillors, including Arthur Terry.

Mr Terry said: "I am pleased that a decision has been made to carry out a full evaluation of the option of a level crossing which will go to the Office of the Rail Regulator. The business case is due to be completed by the end of October.

"We still believe that Harbour Road is still the best site for the station and that a level crossing will be the safest and least disruptive option."

A consultation on the three sites has now closed and North Somerset Council will use the responses as part of the process to decide the location for a new station.

However, any decision is likely to be put on hold until the level crossing option is fully investigated.



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I remember giving that exact same location to one of your 'where was I today?' locations in the past !

 Despite your protestations to the contrary, I think you were staking out the Waitrose operation in Portishead, seeing how many people were driving along enemy territory . i.e the road through the Gordano valley, instead of the Tickenham Road !. You can hardly deny that you were probably at the midway point between the Nailsea and Posset branches !

It would seem that some of our regular contributors are rather slow in coming forward to make comments about this. Obviously they don't want to be  seen  making premature ejaculations...........'

Or Portishead in 1954 to be replaced by a modern futuristic station nearer the town centre that sadly was to close only 10 years later ! Now the site is occupied by the towns only fuel outlet !

Judging by the film clip aired at 1.45pm on Points West, they did. The HOOP train seems to have been dubbed 'Brunel' in the process. At least it wasn't wearing a stove pipe hat, and smoking !. Don't suppose the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) cameraman were that enamoured being out in the dark and pouring rain at 2am in the morning....