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station restoration Name:  Joanne Day Date Posted:   Jan 22, 07 - 1:31 PM Email:   joanne.day@dse.vic.gov.au Message:   Wow! I was doing some research here at work in Melbourne & stumbled across your website. I used to work as a Conservation Officer at North Dorset District Council & remember writing to the furniture company that occupied the station (this would have been around 1992) to try & get them to carry out some sympathetic repairs. I used the station as one of my university case studies, and I even nominated it as a listed building. Unfortunately it got knocked back as it wasn't deemed to be rare enough! I'm so glad to see it being restored at last     --Last edited by Admin on 2007-10-24 11:23:30 -- Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 10:57:20 (24/10/2007 11:06:20 AM)         Re: station restoration Name:   DAVE Date Posted:   Jan 23, 07 - 12:59 PM Message:   Hi, there are also other restoration projects on the line. Midsomer norton has done well. There are those that won't stop untill the whole line is done. Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:07:05 (24/10/2007 11:16:05 AM)         Re: Re: station restoration Name:   Vince Date Posted:   Jan 29, 07 - 7:49 AM Email:   v_eveleigh@yahoo.co.uk Message:   Lets not forget the ambitious two tunnels project from Bath taking in Combe down tunnel and turning it into a cycle/footpath . I believe right through to Midford ? Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:07:28 (24/10/2007 11:16:28 AM)         Re: Re: Re: station restoration Name:   DAVE Date Posted:   Jan 30, 07 - 1:36 PM Message:   Are they going to use the Devonshire tunnel? I heard they were going to excavate the Bath end. Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:08:31 (24/10/2007 11:17:31 AM)         station restoration Name:   Vince Date Posted:   Jan 31, 07 - 11:02 AM Email:   v_eveleigh@yahoo.co.uk Message:   Dave they do have a very good website for the project which covers everything ... http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/gallery.html Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:09:24 (24/10/2007 11:18:24 AM)         Re: : station restoration Name:   Bob Date Posted:   Feb 19, 07 - 12:35 PM Email:   we1330 AT yahoo.co.uk Message:   They might have to change their plans regarding making a cycleway through the tunnels, and elsewhere. The Midsomer Norton group (over)ambitiously (?) state that they have in mind the whole line being re-opened... hmmm   Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:09:48 (24/10/2007 11:18:48 AM)         Re: Re: : station restoration Name:   DAVE Date Posted:   Feb 23, 07 - 10:11 AM Message:   Over ambitious maybe, but people want to keep the dream alive of opening the whole line. It'll probley never happen but while there are those who seek to do it let's just live in hope Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:10:44 (24/10/2007 11:19:44 AM)         Re: Re: Re: : station restoration Name:   Steve Sainsbury Date Posted:   Mar 6, 07 - 9:10 AM Email:   leysiner@aol.com Message:   Only over-ambitious if you think short term and exclude the rapidly approaching problems of climate change and Peak Oil! The Trust at MN have always included the possibility of restoring the whole line in their Constitution - it was what attracted me to the Trust in the first place. If you think about it if the whole line isn't restored where exactly should it stop? Bath to MN, MN to Shepton, Radstock to Templecombe, Shillingstone to Broadstone, Glastonbury to Wells ...? The line will be properly viable (as primarily a transport link) when a large section is restored - at the very least Bath to Shepton and Blandford to Bournemouth in the south. Connection to the outside network is essential. Because if WE don't do it the government will under pressure from ex-car owners and transport firms when the oil runs out. And do we really want the government or an unsympathetic private rail company to restore the S&D their way rather than ours? The more line we have in place and operating in the future the greater the chance that WE'LL be running the S&D, not faceless bureaucrats or profit seeking business people! At the same time the tiny section we're currently building at MN has been a monumental 15 year job, so we're under no illusions as to the scale of the task ahead. But it is getting easier all the time! And it'll always be fun ... Forum Administrator and Webmaster of http://www.Shillingstone-Station-Project.co.uk Admin admin Posts : 62 Official Forum Administrator   Posted 24/10/2007 11:11:54 (24/10/2007 11:20:54 AM)         Re: Re: Re: Re: : station restoration Name:   John Penny Date Posted:   Aug 17, 07 - 10:54 AM Email:   johnpenny67@hotmail.com Message:   ...and speaking of fun; I'm involved with the Gartell Light Railway at Yenston, where we've been running regular steam since 1998! Okay it's only only 2 foot guage. But it is FUN for the participants and visitors! Hope to see you all there!!