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Temporary coach park at Tiverton Parkway which has been unused for six months, must be scrapped rail bosses told

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Dawlish News
Dawlish News
09 Oct 2014 21:40
FIRST Great Western have been told by district council planners to remove a temporary car and coach park installed at Tiverton Parkway to cope with increased passenger numbers following the damage to the London to Paddington mainline at Dawlish.
 
Following repairs to the track at Dawlish the mainline reopened before Easter and six months later the coach and car parking area remains in place, although not used.
Read more...http://www.middevongazette.co.uk/Rail-company-told-scrap-unused-temporary-coach/story-23074979-detail/story.html

 

Clive
Clive
12 Oct 2014 17:42

Perhaps the district council planners also like to put their reputation 'on the line'  laugh that west of Tiverton will not be disrupted again this winter.

Do they really believe it was just an extraordinary 1:100 year event?

I think not.  Services terminating at T.Parkway has become a perfectly predictable part of our winter timetable.