PUFFINGBILLY
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- Joined
- 2 Sep 2011
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A £220,000 loss in last financial year, resignation of chairman & general manager, reduction of operating days - another heritage railway in trouble. I wonder if these might be some of the reasons:
Many years ago the opportunity of installing a turntable was missed due to internal squabbling, such squabbling continues regarding the daft idea of re-opening the branch to Haywards Heath. There is/was a faction behind engine shed doors that just want to play with spanners & welders & avoid all contact with the public. Stray into their area by mistake & you will encounter rudeness - I know for I strayed once. The novelty of the East Grinstead BR connection has waned, nobody can park at Kinsgcote so it remains in isolation giving little reason for rail travellers to alight there. Sheffield Park is an architectural mess, the café offers poor service & the organisation knows it, yet the museum is one of the best & the engine shed re-arrangement just misses being Disneyfied unlike York.
When a certain executive joined staff & volunteers were swamped with corporate self-important pretentious Gobly Gook running to endless pages of reports the contents of which few understood, but it kept people employed writing it all.
These are the views of a one-time volunteer & very very occasional visitor. I'm happy to be proved wrong.
Many years ago the opportunity of installing a turntable was missed due to internal squabbling, such squabbling continues regarding the daft idea of re-opening the branch to Haywards Heath. There is/was a faction behind engine shed doors that just want to play with spanners & welders & avoid all contact with the public. Stray into their area by mistake & you will encounter rudeness - I know for I strayed once. The novelty of the East Grinstead BR connection has waned, nobody can park at Kinsgcote so it remains in isolation giving little reason for rail travellers to alight there. Sheffield Park is an architectural mess, the café offers poor service & the organisation knows it, yet the museum is one of the best & the engine shed re-arrangement just misses being Disneyfied unlike York.
When a certain executive joined staff & volunteers were swamped with corporate self-important pretentious Gobly Gook running to endless pages of reports the contents of which few understood, but it kept people employed writing it all.
These are the views of a one-time volunteer & very very occasional visitor. I'm happy to be proved wrong.