I heard the daftest thing the other day. Apparently a lot of people don't want to get involved with the New S&D - and by extension the S&D revival - because they have heard we're a 'bunch of nutters'!
I'm really sorry to disappoint them, and I know how horrible it can be when the truth hits home, but there's never been room in the New S&D for anyone who isn't as sharp as a knife, well educated and professional. We'd spot a nutter from miles off and they'd never get in.
Not quite sure how this rumour came about, or what mischievous types spread it, but I'm sure the progress at Midford and the rapid development of the New S&D, coupled with an almost universal appreciation that the Beeching cuts now need to be reversed, and quickly, will knock it out of play.
So if you are a nutter, and feel that joining the New S&D will introduce you to a plethora of like-minded friends, forget it. We have a serious nut allergy ... and intend to keep it that way!
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The real nutters are the ones who closed the S&D in the first place. The country is screaming out for better transport links. To either rationalise of mothball routes such as this, the Great Central, the Midland and Great Northern Joint, Woodhead etc... would have saved these lines in tact for when they were needed again and in some cases, kept running by volunter groups who were interested in them. A completely single line S&D or GCR doesn't sound very appealing but it would have been better than total closure.
It is an even bigger crime not to be safeguarding the formations even this late on. It’s almost that they don't want to be seen to be doing it as it would be seen as a perfect example of those leading us not having a clue?
This country has been busy destroying itself from within for the last 50/60 years and to make matter worse we paid for it!
Apparently it now pays to just sit on your arse and do nothing. That won't be the way for the future and rebuilding these lines will need to be part of putting the Great back in Britain.
We might even have to go back to digging for coal and making things?
I suppose I’ll be classed as a nutter for those thoughts?
LOL 1984?
You should be commended for having a vision and then endeavouring to make it a reality. Almost every challenge looks impossible and there will always be cynics and critics and moaners and whiners and whingers - but suggest you simply smile and get on with it.
Of course what is being suggested is massive - but there are little bits (here and there) of the old S&D which are coming back to life and there will be easier bits and bits that look impossible. But that's life!
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