A new cooperatively owned rail company

[kenneal - lagger]

There is a proposal for a new cooperatively owned rail company to serve the Westbury to Taunton area. Sounds like a good small investment opportunity to me and a way forward for many communities.

[adam2]

The plans sound excellent, but they produce plans regularly and have yet to run a single train.
I attended a meeting regarding the potential for running trains from Minehead to Taunton or beyond, that was some years ago and sounded very reasonable, but some years on, no trains have resulted.

[BritDownUnder]

Putting on my cynical hat but aren't these proposals just an excuse for someone like an accountant or lawyer or professional company director just earning a bit of extra cash before retirement while not really doing anything. And let's not get started on consultants fees.

They would be better off having a walking train, a bit like the 'walking buses' for school children they have, certainly in Aus. Or even a battery electric or pedal powered train.

[adam2]

Here is a link to a railway forum where this has been discussed for about TEN years !
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffe ... ic=11010.0
And when the discussion started, things had already been not happening for some years.