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« Reply #75 on: January 05, 2024, 16:42:42 »

...and the report seems to have jumped the gun regarding the signal box...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/new-railway-footbridge-lostwithiel-hold-9008019

Has anyone attempted to build a bridge over a railway before?  Seems a tricky thing to do....
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« Reply #76 on: January 05, 2024, 18:58:08 »

...and the report seems to have jumped the gun regarding the signal box...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/new-railway-footbridge-lostwithiel-hold-9008019

Has anyone attempted to build a bridge over a railway before?  Seems a tricky thing to do....


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However the cost is now £1.845m, forcing Cornwall Council to seek funding from the Department for Transport. Work on the bridge had been due to start at the beginning of 2023.
or has 2024 not come to Cornwall yet?

Railway Bridges HAVE been built before, but the experience will come in handy for places like Pilning.
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« Reply #77 on: January 10, 2024, 19:49:08 »

 If they do change their mind, the 'old' footbridge is still at Totnes.
 Rusting away in the old Dairy site.
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« Reply #78 on: January 10, 2024, 22:11:39 »

If they do change their mind, the 'old' footbridge is still at Totnes.
 Rusting away in the old Dairy site.

Blimey, I go to Totnes a fair bit and never noticed it, unless they've dragged it out of sight of the station.... it's a big dairy site.
I'm wondering why it's still there though.  If it hadn't been earmarked for something else I would have imagined that it would have be sold for scrap by now.... makes me wonder if a heritage line has first dibs on it.
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« Reply #79 on: January 24, 2024, 12:23:11 »

Question raised at PMQs today by SE Cornwall MP (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) asking for the PMs help to push this through.
Reply was along the lines of "Network Rail looking for a funding solution in the next financial year"

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« Reply #80 on: February 06, 2024, 08:28:50 »

Todays Cornish Times...

https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/lostwithiel-footbridge-plan-hits-the-buffers-664410
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« Reply #81 on: April 03, 2024, 09:07:28 »

Network Rail is set to install a temporary bridge in the summer

https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/lostwithiel-link-to-be-restored-with-first-footbridge-in-50-years
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« Reply #82 on: April 03, 2024, 17:26:40 »

Does it include disabled access as well?
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« Reply #83 on: April 03, 2024, 17:33:14 »

I doubt it. Level access will still be available over the level crossing. Possibly not on the permanent bridge that follows it too.
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« Reply #84 on: April 04, 2024, 08:12:36 »

Does it include disabled access as well?

New access ramp to the down platform being built at the moment to bypass the narrow existing ramp beside the front of the signal box.  Not seen any design for either the temporary or future bridge yet, as ever it is all about available funds.
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« Reply #85 on: May 28, 2024, 01:08:33 »

With thanks to all of our members here who have, over the years, provided so much varied information about Lostwithiel - may I explain?

I was simply trying to find a reference to 'disabled access via ramp', just to compare it with our situation at Nailsea & Backwell, when I found that there were some ten or twelve other topics here, all relating to 'Lostwithiel'.

I've therefore merged them all into this 'definitive' topic relating to Lostwithiel - purely for ease of future reference.  Wink

Actually, there's some fascinating stuff here, if you have a couple of minutes to browse back.  Grin

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« Reply #86 on: May 29, 2024, 21:20:32 »

Good call on merging it all Chris, Thank you.

Lostwithiel still awaits it's fabled temporary bridge, and there is much riding on it politically locally.

The temporary structure puts 'Tanks on the Lawn' in the event of a government change as an ongoing rental expense that cannot be ignored by any future rail minister.  If said temporary bridge doesn't materialise soon, then there will be a lot of 'loss of face' by our incumbent MP (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), who has put significant effort into progressing the project, which will only be siezed on by her opposition who is typically all to keen to ride on the coat tails of others.

It is 10 years since I started asking for this bridge, and have learnt not to hold my breath !
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« Reply #87 on: June 11, 2024, 15:34:26 »

Surveying underway today for both the temporary, then permanent footbridges.
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« Reply #88 on: June 11, 2024, 19:09:37 »

When they are finished could you send them To Pilning?...
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« Reply #89 on: June 11, 2024, 21:13:42 »

Via Nailsea & Backwell, please.  Grin

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