You mean the one where the company extraxting the opencast site was supposed to deposit a levy or bond to enable restoration works to take place before any work commenced. Apparently that didnt happen. And the company went into administration.
Reports said some of these were unrecorded mine workings, which isn't especially unusual.
Making it safe for the properties above is a much easier task than safe for the passage of trains.
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Who was that, as a matter of interest?
MPs demand train operator combats poor performance
Cumbrian MPs have called on train operator Northern to address months of poor performance for passengers.
Northern’s latest data shows that in the past two months, 6.9% of trains between Barrow and Corkickle and 4.9% between Carlisle and Whitehaven were cancelled or part-cancelled. The national average for cancellations is 4.4%.
MPs Michelle Scrogham (Barrow and Furness), Josh MacAlister (Whitehaven & Workington), Julie Minns (Carlisle), and Markus Campbell-Savours (Penrith and Solway) met with bosses of the travel firm this week to discuss the poor performance on Cumbrian Coast Line.
The MPs said they were also pushing the rail industry into action after the Bransty Tunnel closure in Whitehaven last July continued to cause severe disruption.
Pressure from MPs has secured some improvements, including timetable changes, better replacement bus services, and additional support at affected stations.
However, performance levels remain unacceptably poor.
MPs expressed concern at the lack of urgency and have formally requested a recovery plan by the end of the month.
Yes, terminating in the bay - last time I was there, the drop down onto the lower level of the platform was causing some people much difficulty.
There is a hump. You used it. It just fits one door on the train. Which might have been useful for the relatively rare services using platform 1 normally, but these days it's a pain in the proverbial.
To be fair to them it does look like they managed to get the last train running from Barrow to Corkickle this evening. However it ran empty ECS back to Barrow and then continued as scheduled to Preston.
Is it that the previous types of trains had the floor at a different height or has the track level changed but the platform surface has not?
The Pacers were easier to get a bike on certainly. And he platform height at some stations I've noticed on disembarking is a struggle.
I am an occasional user of the Whitehaven-Carlisle route and in my opinion there seems to be a high number of train cancellations due to train crew shortages. Today has been a particularly bad day with several cancellation. It is even more galling when a service train is cancelled, only for it to run ecs to its destination. Northern need to up their game on this route.
When this happens it means that there is no conductor to work the train and the driver has to take it empty to its destination to position it for its next working....and avoid further cancellations.
