I received this today, a map carefully drawn by one of our junior members. It's great to see kids that were not even born in the 80s getting involved with our railway. Matthew's 12 and it was his idea to introduce junior membership. We're still small enough for everybody to influence what we are doing, and hopefully that won't change even as we hit 100, 1000 and 10000 members!
He also raised £10 as a donation for the Midford appeal, by car washing. He should be an inspiration for us all!
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I always thought the first step would be to support the East Somerset Rlwy's push to Shepton, and also the line from Frome to Radstock re-opening. Then was join the dots between Shepton and Radstock with the S&D and you're main line connected (sort-of) both ends!
First things first is to secure the trackbed.Our first step is Midford then when trackbed comes up for sale is to buy it back for the railway. Midsomer Norton future plans are to run from Radstock to Shepton. We include the hole line.
MSN is not tinkering at playing trains. When Prestleigh Viaduct was deliberately destroyed by BR in 1993, The Washford Trackbed Steward, Richard Stevens decided enough was enough and set up a breakaway trust to try and preserve the physical route. By chance 2 years later the 6 of us then heard that owners Norton Radstock college were going to demolish midsomer norton south for a housing estate to part pay for a new 1 million pound building on their campus site and so 2 of us met shirley steel in july 1995 to try and jointly save the site. In october 1995 the then s&d trackbed trust and wansdyke tourism association had the station leased to them after the council paid norton radstock college £70,000 for the site, and our return to railway use proposal was only won at a council meeting by a margin of just one vote, thanks to tom rees-mogg. So you see, now matter what the perception, 14 years on, we had to save the last most intact s&d station; failure was not an option, although it nearly failed in may 1998 had I not gotten John Baxter, Peter Russell and friends involved.
Nick
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