This is the blog for the brixham railway project. There is a desparate need for a safe route between Brixham and Churstons attractions. This was resolved generations before by a railway track, nice and wide broad gauge. This track lays like a quiet ghost, whilst people risk their lives on narrow country lanes. This includes children going to school, Churston Gramma School. At the moment you have no route apart from rushing to a car and when you use this, there is limited car parking space. Children are told that its too dangerous to go to school by bike!
The solution is already there, there is a route that would provide a backbone between the utilities and attractions of Brixham and Churston.
We are currently writing a proposal to Lord Churston, the current land owner, after ownership reverted, when the line was closed. The project is a win win situation, all businesses and community will benefit by using this dormant land, which holds some of the most valuable industrial heritage within the bounds of Brixham and Churston.
The churston estate would come alive and offer potential within the agricultural use and the wider community. The need to jump in the car would be removed as an ecoroute would be provided by the old railway.
The good will from the town, when the project starts would be immense. We can talk about the regeneration of the town, but without a coherant eco-route, we would have no way of providing safe routes of passage. The Brixham Railway, the Brunnel Project, provides the way forward.
The project is a community project and please do vote for it. The vote is for progress and the future of the next generation.
Sunday, 18 February 2007
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