A Happy New Year from FOGS! The year has got off to a good start with the renewal of our safety licence from Network Rail to continue our work on the Embankment. Our thanks to Mike Franklin, Russell Pike and Pete Gaskell for their help and support. We are also working closely with Northern to try and replace the two remaining boarded up windows at Glossop station. Theo gave us permission to remove one of the boards at the Christmas event so that he and the rest of us could ascertain exactly what work is required. Surprisingly the frames are in much better condition than we anticipated and with the prospect of a Railway Heritage Trust grant we are keen to move this project forward. Also in preparation, a new tourist map of Glossop for the station which is being designed by Val of Derbyshire County Council in Matlock. The design is interesting featuring some attractive hand drawn images of the town's best known features. Penny and Neil are to create the text for it in the coming weeks. The storyboard project for Glossop, Hadfield and Dinting stations is moving along too with significant help from Joy, Chair of Friends of Hadfield Station. And we are keeping up the pressure on Network Rail to renew the external railings which border the track and embankment which are now 101 years old and in a deteriorating condition. They are causing us some concern - not just from an aesthetic point of view and we are doing all we can to get these renewed. We are keeping a very close eye on TfGM's tram train proposals - see previous account Nov 2013 for our resistance to these. We are looking forward to seeing the new booking office open at Guide Bridge in the Spring and it is pleasing to witness the renaissance going on here! And of course associated work for electrification of the route Guide Bridge to Stalybridge and Victoria to Stalybridge. Parsons Brinckerhoff consultancy has been awarded the design engineering contract for the first phase of the North Trans Pennine Manchester to Leeds electrification work. This includes a resilience study of the Glossop Line route between Ashburys and Newton. Plenty going on!!
| Friends Of Glossop Station |
|
RSS Feed