Recent content by Colin Morgan

You have to remember that the period when the management of the project was going awry and the public was being lied to was when the Mayor of London was a certain Boris Johnson. There is no rational explanation of why he was chosen to be in a position to deliver so many non funny jokes.

The Guidance to the Equality Act requires that whenever work affecting public access is carried out the result must be at least as good for all of the protected groups and if it is a new structure it must conform to present standards. The Act has provisions for a single member of a protected...

Swanage Railway is planning to run a regular service, though not a year round service. It has 4 dmu coaches, I diesel, I steam engine fully registered to run on the main line and five Mk1 carriages almost ready to carry passengers on the main line. It is well advanced in the process of becoming...

Page 41 includes some new announcements from Round 2 of the Recovering Your Fund which includes funding for a feasibility study for restoring railway services between Swanage and Wareham. Locally this is seen as a step forward which will lead onto Swanage Railway obtaining the relative small...

Follow the link that has been given and actually read the "justification" for the trial it gives all kind of reasons why the "trial" should not go ahead. It is proposed to only be based on limited 50 mile long routes that have to be agreed by the local authorities for the area. This approval can...

Running the train as far as Weymouth is a franchise requirement and a response to local demands to increase services to Weymouth for leisure travellers. There is also for services from North Dorset and from Devon by providing connections from the Salisbury - Exeter line. This service is a small...

When the planning permission to continue extracting oil from the Wytch Farm field was renewed in 2016, one of the conditions was that the sidings at Furzebrook would be retained for rail use with an agreement that Perenco - the site owners, would lease the land to Dorset Council who would sub...