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Title: ITV West feature on West Somerset railway Post by: infoman on May 31, 2025, 06:13:16 ITV West to celebrate 70 years of ITV,
had an item on the West Somerset railway from 1978 on the local news at 6pm on Friday 30 May 2025,enjoyable. Title: Re: ITV West feature on West Somerset railway Post by: Witham Bobby on June 02, 2025, 12:14:29 ITV West to celebrate 70 years of ITV, had an item on the West Somerset railway from 1978 on the local news at 6pm on Friday 30 May 2025,enjoyable. Was this the archive item about the 1978 blizzard? Days I remember very well indeed. When the WSR had the purpose of being a useful public transport link for the people of West Somerset, and remembered all those people who queued for hours at Minehead station a couple of years earlier to buy shares that they'd been told would bring their Taunton trains back The blizzard that very nearly killed me at the age of not yet 23 Title: Re: ITV West feature on West Somerset railway Post by: Timmer on June 02, 2025, 17:48:53 Days I remember very well indeed. When the WSR had the purpose of being a useful public transport link for the people of West Somerset, and remembered all those people who queued for hours at Minehead station a couple of years earlier to buy shares that they'd been told would bring their Taunton trains back. And they are still waiting… ::)Title: Re: ITV West feature on West Somerset railway Post by: grahame on June 02, 2025, 20:25:24 And they are still waiting… ::) Minehead ... Portishead ... Go-op ... Corsham ... Tavistock ... threre are so many schemes that would benefit form a JFDI approach. Thinking as applied at Workington North and for rail-road interchange at Tiverton Parkway. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |