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Monday, November 27, 2006
painter and decorator
We are incredibly lucky at Midsomer Norton in having one of the UK's leading artists right on our doorstep - and a lover of the S&D to boot! David Fisher was at the station today launching his latest masterpiece, 'Wait For Us'. This features the soon-to-be-reinstated bridge over Silver Street. David will be at the station on the Saturday (9th December) during the Santa weekend.
This is his previous work, 'Let Battle Commence', featuring the first test run of a 9F, facing the Mendip gradients at the Dorset end of Radstock station.
Another shot of the latest work ... which would make a superb Xmas present for your hard-working Blogger (hint!)
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Whilst at the moment we're concentrating on heading south to a temporary 'Chilcompton Halt' it is likely that we will switch to restoring to Radstock before the push to the old Chilcompton station proper, through the tunnels. A station at Radstock will be highly visible and give us a much higher profile than we currently have. To this end the safety works at the Silver Street end will be easy to convert when the bridge is restored. We have had an engineer look at the situation and reinstatement is not as big a task as we'd first feared.
This is all about 5 years in the future and will of course depend on a very vigorous funding push! 'Soon' should be considered in the light of S&D restoration being a long-term project, crossing generations!
On the whole the route between Bath and Shepton is almost clear of obstacles. Midsomer Norton to Bath is protected as a future transport corridor.
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