The difficulties facing the West Somerset Railway have been well documented and need little repeating here. But a friend of mine, who is a member of the Llangollen Railway, lent me the latest Society magazine, SAL (Steam at Llangollen). The Chairman’s report made for troubling reading:
Liz McGuinness (Chairman, Llangollen Railway plc).
I’m sure there are many people on this forum who are members of various railway preservation societies. So I was wondering, how many of our heritage lines are in (financial) difficulties? And why? Is it due to prevailing economic conditions, poor marketing or simply bad management? It’s clearly not universal because some railways are doing quite well, thank you. But others clearly are not…
“The start of a new year and unfortunately not a very good start. As many of you may be aware we are having a few difficulties at present. In February I had the unpleasant task of making two of our staff redundant. I do not intent [sic] to dwell on this or go in to any great details, suffice to say we are working hard to get over this and we will come through this.”
Liz McGuinness (Chairman, Llangollen Railway plc).
I’m sure there are many people on this forum who are members of various railway preservation societies. So I was wondering, how many of our heritage lines are in (financial) difficulties? And why? Is it due to prevailing economic conditions, poor marketing or simply bad management? It’s clearly not universal because some railways are doing quite well, thank you. But others clearly are not…
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