Tag: station

• It (still) isn’t easy being green

  

  A lot of my time at the moment is occupied by an impending planning application in my village. It’s for a new railway station, and there is a large part of me that goes, yes! Public transport, accessible in the village, has got to be ‘a good thing’, right? Buses come and buses go, and…

  bish

  21 Jul 2022

  environmental, parish council

  charfield, congestion, parking, railway, station, traffic

• Feeling Railroaded

  

  The village of Charfield has long had a main railway line running through the middle of it. It’s famous, if at all, for the railway disaster of October 1928 where a passenger train crsahed into a goods train underneath the main Wotton Road railway bridge, killing sixteen people and leaving a mangled carnage beneath it.…

  bish

  19 Oct 2021

  environmental

  charfield, railway, station