this appeared in North Wales Rail weekly web mag on Tuesday, put up with permission of
http://www.nwrail.org.uk/nwnews.htm
The song of Essex Colin
(After Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
"Businessman who planned to review railway vanishes".- Newspaper
By the shores of Llyn Trawsfynydd
By the shining nuclear water
Stands the empty Lakeside Café
Recently refurbished café
Part of Essex Colin's project
For a boat and re-born railway
Colin Dale, our Essex Colin
63, his age in brackets
(Not the same-named Raving Loony)
Businessman with great ambitions
For the railway beyond Blaenau
From Trawsfynydd down to Blaenau
Trains would run again for tourists
Network Rail would give no trouble
Two years later, nothing's happened
But then in the Caernarfon Herald
A story read that he had 'vanished'
Unpaid bills and angry partners
Disillusion in all quarters
It seemed the scheme had been abandoned
Now we see just one week later
Again in the Caernarfon Herald
Kevin White the ace reporter
Gets a call from Essex Colin
'Had to go home due to illness
Disappointed with the critics
Paid the bills and work continues
Volunteers will the clear the railway
Waiting for the boat we ordered
Planning to revive the café'
So we wait with cameras ready
For the next train to Trawsfyndd
On the footplate, Essex Colin
All the best to Essex Colin
For his boat and Lakeside Café
As for hopes to run the railway
In the great god Network Rail's ways
We'd suggest another answer
Hire a vintage bus to Blaenau.
http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/c...ed-to-revive-railway-vanishes-88817-29545826/
http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/c...lans-to-reopen-a-railway-line-88817-29584776/
The Liverpool Daily Post Welsh Edn is from the same group of newspapers,Trinity Mirror all printed in Oldham.
