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Let’s tidy up our park-side railway.

A while back l pointed out how vegetation was beginning to take hold on the retaining wall of the Great … More

B&NES, Bath, Great Western Railway, IK Brunel, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens

Bath, April 26th.

Bath doesn’t rate very well in the litter stakes with our streets way down the list for cleanliness – often … More

Brunel, Canal, Cleveland Pools, Great Western Railway, Green Party, hampton row, Holburne Park, HS2, Kennet and Avon Canal, litter, MOD Warminster Road, Network Rail, Sky TV, street liltter, Sydney Gardens, urban farm

Bath’s turf wear

Two years of necessary disruption around Bath Abbey as the multi-million pound Footprint Project gets underway but l can’t resist … More

Bath, Bath Abbey, grass, Great Western Railway, lawns, Network Rail, Orange Grove, Parks, Sydney Gardens

Rail closure over Easter.

Easter problems ahead on our railway link with Bristol it seems. Bath & North East Somerset Council is asking visitors … More

Bath, bath spa station, Bristol, Easter, great western railways, Network Rail

Rails-way station

I am naturally curious. Don’t know whether it’s journalistic training – or that l came ‘ready-wired’ for being nosey – … More

B&NES, bath spa station, GWR, heritage, history, Network Rail, planning, railways, trains

The Bath Briefing

Want to know how many Bath Spa undergraduates cycle to classes or how many people crammed into Bath last year … More

B&NES, Bath, Bath Spa University, Bath University, First Bus, GWR, Network Rail, pollution, transport, Visit Bath, Wera Hobhouse

Buddleia versus Brunel.

Elsewhere on Bath Newseum l have drawn attention to the state of the stone balustrade on the Grand Parade side … More

Bath, Buddleia, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Network Rail, railway, Retaining wall, Sydney Gardens

Brunel’s footbridge still due to be restored.

Brunel’s cast iron footbridge over the main line to London – cutting through Bath’s Sydney Gardens – is now open … More

Bath, Brunel, Great Western Railway, Insambard Kingdom Brunel, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens

It’s amaze-ing!

Hands up if you haven’t yet heard of the “Sydney Gardens Parks for People Heritage Lottery Fund Project.” Yeh l … More

B&NES, Bath, Holburne Museum, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens, SydneyGardens Parks for People Heritage Lottery Fund Project

We’ve bought a ruin!

Apart from their Christian names, l know nothing about Wendy and Tom –  the new owners of a patch of … More

Folly Pub, Great Western Railway, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail

Bath Spa’s platform extensions

Well the Government may have slowed things down on the electrification front but that hasn’t stopped Network Rail engineers getting … More

Bath, bath spa station, Bristol, GWR, hitachi, London, Network Rail, platforms, rail

Guildhall buddleia and the new monolith.

A quick round up as we head into the weekend. Network Rail contractors have completed repairs to the decking of … More

Bath, Bath BID, Buddleia, laura place fountain, monoliths, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens, The Corridor, tourism

Council aims to keep people moving during rail station closure.

  Bath & North East Somerset Council says it’s determined to keep people moving during the forthcoming improvement works at Bath … More

Bath, bath spa station, great western railways, GWR, Network Rail

Guildhall’s green ribbons.

Whatever the green ribbons were meant to represent – and l am told it is Mental Health Awareness  – they … More

Bath, Bath Guildhall, bath spa station, Bell Inn, Homesbase, kinetic, Network Rail, Phones4U, Walcot

More room at Bath Spa station when the power lines go through.

Network Rail say they intend keeping  Bath Spa station open next April – even though this historic stopping point on the … More

bath spa station, Brunel, Great Western Railway, Network Rail, planning, skew bridge

A penny for your thoughts?

B&NES has big plans for making historic Sydney Gardens more ’21st century’ friendly. That’s if the council is successful in … More

B&NES, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bath Somerset, Heritage Lottery Fund, Holburne Museum, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens, vauxhall

Bath Spa station closure expected during April, 2017

I am hearing the next period of major rail disruption for Bath is currently expected to come during April next … More

Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Council, bath spa station, Brunel, electrification, GWR, Network Rail, paddington

What fate for a Bath footbridge?

Railway footbridge 10565 is one of the countless crossings of the main line to London erected since Brunel linked Bristol … More

Bath & North East Somerset Council, Cleveland Pools, electrification, Great Western, hampton row, Network Rail

Rail reconstruction gets underway through Bath in 2017.

A new word has entered our local vocabulary in the last couple of years. It’s ‘t-pod’ and it is a … More

B&NES, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Council, bath spa station, box tunnel, Bristol, electrification, Great Western Railway, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Keynsham, Network Rail, Railway electrification system, Sydney Gardens

Is this the Sydney Gardens rig for electrification?

This is the way electrification may well be carried through Bath’s historic Sydney Gardens. My thanks to Noel Dolphin of Furrer+Frey … More

Bath, Great WEestern, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens

Bristol/Bath rail closure over Easter.

Bath & North East Somerset Council is urging commuters to plan ahead to during the forthcoming closure of the railway … More

Bath, Bristol, Easter, Great Western, Keynsham, Network Rail, Railway electrification system

That sinking feeling.

Back from a week’s holiday and surprised to see Network Rail contractors are still busy doing repairs to the rail … More

Bath & North East Somerset Council, Holburne Museum, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens

Underneath the arches.

While we are waiting for work to start on surfacing the path from Grosvenor Bridge onto the Kennet and Avon … More

B&NES, Cleveland Pools, Holburne Museum, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail, Sydney Gardens

Losing steam?

Things are getting a little behind as far as the electrification of the Great Western main rail line to London … More

B&NES, Bath, First Great Western, Great Western, Great Western Railway, GWR, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Network Rail

Cleveland Pools lecture, bridge inspection and latest on old Harvester.

Sat in on a free lunchtime lecture at Bath Guildhall given by Sally Helvey who is a trustee of the … More

B&NES, Bath, Cleveland Pools, Great Western Railway, Harvester, Kennet and Avon Canal, Network Rail, planning, River Avon

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