GWSR seeks trackbed assurances
Aug 30, 2021
3 minutes
By Chris Milner
QUEENSBURY TUNNEL SOCIETY
FRANK DUMBLETON/GWS
PETER R FOSTER
JO ROESEN
Jack Boskett
HOPES of transferring the trackbed of the closed line from Broadway to Honeybourne to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) has hit a stumbling block because the Department for Transport (DfT) is refusing to sanction the transfer. The reason relates to a covenant over future maintenance of bridges.
Back in the mid-1980s, British Rail’s Property Board offered the trackbed to the railway for £5, but
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