A date was mentioned as being operational by the end of 2024! .How does Charfield reopening circumvent the much derided GRIP^▸ (Guide to Railway Investment Projects) process??
If only Port Zed was up and running by the end of next year?!

Parson Street and Bedminister International may yet receive a second state visit from Sir Michael Portaloo.....

Having been surprised on numerous occasions at just how many church organists are also bonkers about steam engines....and vice versa.....I think it must be the pipes....I would feel somewhat short changed to attend an organ recital given entirely on the Second Open Diapason.....

Local Parish councillor and chair of the Pilning station group Olga Taylor likes to point out: "Pilning footbridge was the only railway bridge, which came down during the electrocution process......

Almost worthy of a G.ELLIS typo award. I suppose it's one way of keeping warm on a cold winter morning....

The line has had its annual vegetation clearance and looks as if trains could be running tomorrow ! If only....

Hate to think what the Brits would do if we ever Americanised it to 'No Pants day'. A shame there isn't a underground station called The Full Moon....

I have to admit that the current drivers on my only regular service from First (x4) from
Portishead to Bristol are much more customer friendly than the ones they replaced.   

I didn't know that the reason we pee more in cold weather...is nothing to do with muscle contractions......rather it is because we do not sweat in the cold. What is normally lost through the skin in hot weather goes to the bladder instead in winter.

The people leaving the station in the last photo,looked as if they had been hanging around for quite a long time.....

Just announced that the Porkway Partway won't open next month as planned.....delayed until the Spring.
Given the Portishead DCO^▸ (Driver Controlled Operation) approval in the last 24 hours, I am  tempted to ask...which spring ?

The Evening Post are suggesting...and we know how they always get it right....that the full business case still needs approval and that won't happen until summer 2024. So we are once again 4 years away from actually seeing trains on the line!.
I wonder if it is worth looking up previous DCO^▸ (Driver Controlled Operation) consents and seeing how long it was before services were up and running ??

It would be nice to think that Mark Harper as a local FoD  MP^▸ (Member of Parliament) was aware of the long running saga of the Portishead line   and decided to end the nonsense  within 2 weeks of getting his feet under the desk!

I would love to think it is Full steam ahead, all systems go....for the next 3 days at least.

On the Circumetnal as we Brizzleonians sez...

And I bet Chris Witts can name every single one of them!