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« Reply #60 on: August 10, 2020, 13:49:53 »

I did think that sounded less diplomatic than the grahame I know..!
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« Reply #61 on: August 10, 2020, 16:14:35 »

In the city but not the City. Or to quote Grahame, "the leech-like suburbs".  Cheesy

Hey ... those are NOT my words.   Used by member Reading General ((here)) last November referred back to by three other members, but never my words and probably not wording I would re-use or concur with!
Sorry. For some reason I remembered it as being your phrase.
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« Reply #62 on: August 10, 2020, 17:38:02 »

Not sure if we've heard this news ... I think I may have heard similar before?

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Portway train station is delayed again

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The completion date for Bristol's first new train station in decades has been delayed due to coronavirus.

Portway station, at Portway Park and Ride in Avonmouth, had been due to open later this year.

It secured £1m of government funding last week, but the entire project will cost about three and a half million pounds.

Bristol City Council has since confirmed that the project is no longer on track to open by December, although it is now fully funded.

A spokesperson told Bristol Live: “ The Portway station scheme is fully funded, with the cost of the project - which includes work that has already taken place - being between £3.4-3.6m

“Following some delays due to the pandemic, detailed project design is now progressing, with work set to start on site at the end of this year ahead of completion of construction in the summer of 2021.’’

Oh ... scrolling down ... think it's a retelling of a story from a few years days back ...
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« Reply #63 on: August 10, 2020, 17:56:59 »

Not sure if we've heard this news ... I think I may have heard similar before?

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Maybe you read it here?  Grin

Report in todays Bristles local daily of another delay to this project but confirms that the project is now fully funded. Yes fully funded at todays costs but how about the inflation that will occur between yesterdays projected completion date and the now newly delayed completion date together with the revelation that design work for the project has not been started yet. Let me put another damper on this project, do they know if they own the land on which the platform will be sited.    😗
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« Reply #64 on: July 09, 2021, 11:44:09 »

By means that I am unable to fully divulge, I can say with reasonable confidence that the name of the new station will be:

Portway Park and Ride

...which would seem like a very sensible choice!
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« Reply #65 on: July 09, 2021, 11:49:32 »

By means that I am unable to fully divulge, I can say with reasonable confidence that the name of the new station will be:

Portway Park and Ride

...which would seem like a very sensible choice!

Ah - you have been to the GBR (Great British Railways) Signmakers  Grin

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« Reply #66 on: July 09, 2021, 12:08:32 »

I can't say... Cool
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« Reply #67 on: July 09, 2021, 12:49:59 »

Just feeling my way around this most informative website. I am from the Cheshire East area. There was a discussion earlier in this thread about the use of the word "parkway" and in the south of Manchester, very many years ago, was a good quality road with the name of Princess Parkway, which in its later stages passed through parkland-type areas. That road now where it passes over the River Mersey now becomes the M56 which passes near to Manchester Airport.

Back on the subject of this thread, which I see has been given a "play on words" thread name, the last month that I heard as a possible railway station opening was December 2021.
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« Reply #68 on: July 09, 2021, 13:26:03 »

Back on the subject of this thread, which I see has been given a "play on words" thread name, the last month that I heard as a possible railway station opening was December 2021.

The "pork" in the title is also a reference to the creatures we tend to see flying by whenever an opening date is mentioned - I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2010s  Grin
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« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2021, 13:26:31 »

The full 20-year saga is here: https://fosbr.org.uk/timelines/portway-station/

This is to be a single-platform station, on straight and level track. You might very well think it should have been pretty straightforward to build it, XenophonPCDGS, but then you're not from around here!

'Portway Parkway' was mooted as the new station's name for a while. Aside from the obvious tongue-twister, there was also potential for confusing it with Bristol Parkway. 'Portway Station' was also mooted as a name, but given that many Bristolians refer to nearby Bristol Parkway as simply 'Parkway' (it's the original!) that too would have been confusing.

The only thing the new station really serves is the long-established Portway Park and Ride facility. It seems surprising it's taken the powers that be so long to reach the conclusion that it would make sense to name it after that...
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« Reply #70 on: July 09, 2021, 13:35:44 »

The full 20-year saga is here: https://fosbr.org.uk/timelines/portway-station/

This is to be a single-platform station, on straight and level track. You might very well think it should have been pretty straightforward to build it, XenophonPCDGS, but then you're not from around here!

'Portway Parkway' was mooted as the new station's name for a while. Aside from the obvious tongue-twister, there was also potential for confusing it with Bristol Parkway. 'Portway Station' was also mooted as a name, but given that many Bristolians refer to nearby Bristol Parkway as simply 'Parkway' (it's the original!) that too would have been confusing.

The only thing the new station really serves is the long-established Portway Park and Ride facility. It seems surprising it's taken the powers that be so long to reach the conclusion that it would make sense to name it after that...


Ooops on my part there - I actually meant to say "I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2000s"  Grin

One of the reasons that the naming process became such a saga was that the station was originally partly mooted as a replacement for the existing Shirehampton station, and a number of years passed with several variations of "Shirehampton and..." before that notion was wisely dropped.
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« Reply #71 on: July 09, 2021, 22:22:02 »

The "pork" in the title is also a reference to the creatures we tend to see flying by whenever an opening date is mentioned - I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2010s  Grin

You Johnny-come-lately! I was there when the Lib Dem cabinet member with the transport portfolio Tim Kent announced that it would be open by 2013 at a cost of £400,000. That confident asserrtion must have been made before the Lib Dems lost power in 2011.
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« Reply #72 on: July 09, 2021, 22:54:04 »

The "pork" in the title is also a reference to the creatures we tend to see flying by whenever an opening date is mentioned - I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2010s  Grin

You Johnny-come-lately! I was there when the Lib Dem cabinet member with the transport portfolio Tim Kent announced that it would be open by 2013 at a cost of £400,000. That confident asserrtion must have been made before the Lib Dems lost power in 2011.

I refer the honourable gentleman to the correction i made some posts ago  Grin

The full 20-year saga is here: https://fosbr.org.uk/timelines/portway-station/

This is to be a single-platform station, on straight and level track. You might very well think it should have been pretty straightforward to build it, XenophonPCDGS, but then you're not from around here!

'Portway Parkway' was mooted as the new station's name for a while. Aside from the obvious tongue-twister, there was also potential for confusing it with Bristol Parkway. 'Portway Station' was also mooted as a name, but given that many Bristolians refer to nearby Bristol Parkway as simply 'Parkway' (it's the original!) that too would have been confusing.

The only thing the new station really serves is the long-established Portway Park and Ride facility. It seems surprising it's taken the powers that be so long to reach the conclusion that it would make sense to name it after that...


Ooops on my part there - I actually meant to say "I was around on the campaigning scene when they were hoping to get it open by the end of the 2000s"  Grin

One of the reasons that the naming process became such a saga was that the station was originally partly mooted as a replacement for the existing Shirehampton station, and a number of years passed with several variations of "Shirehampton and..." before that notion was wisely dropped.
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I refer the honourable gentleman to the correction i made some posts ago  Grin

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« Reply #74 on: October 14, 2021, 14:23:05 »

FoSBR» (Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways - site) is told that work hasn't started yet at Portway Park and Ride station because of 'some additional delays' in getting GRIP5 (detailed design) completed.

Bristol City Council are now waiting for Network Rail to inform them when they will start on site. With an estimated 20 week build, the station 'should be complete by the end of March 2022'.
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