Re: Horns
- From: "TBirdFrank" <frankie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Jan 2006 08:29:48 -0800
Charlie - you asked "Does this mean the railway can be as noisy as it
likes ..........."
Provided that all the railway is involved in at any particular time is
the running of a railway within its statutory powers - the answer is
yes. Things that might otherwise constitute a statutory nuisance - such
as noise - become expressly permitted as a safety necessity.
The same goes for vibration - remember the changeover from the thirties
ICI hoppers to the EWS 100 tonners and Hale village starting to bop
down the line. Its just the same. All the railway was doing was being a
railway.
We had a similar example at Hazzle Grazzle when a new stop board was
constructed on the Disley side of the Midland Viaduct to permit use of
the new chord.
Tractors grumbled away whilst waiting and their exhausts floated over
suburban house tops, so we received complaints.
We replied that the railway was only being a railway, as permitted by
the act of parliament that created it in the 1860s as the location was
hundreds of yards from the new chord, - that was that
So if there are complaints the correct answer is not to get involved in
trying to placate complainants when you know you aren't going to
actually do anything, but to simply say - if the public at large want
things changed then they will have to go through the same statutory
procedures that created the railway to change its operating climate -
and when someone presents the bill - will it happen - will it
...............
As for casual on track behaviour - Instead of catching the train home -
nip up Minshull Street and trot into the magistrates courts to get an
earful of what was happening on Shap one dark night - it is simply
unforgiveable what goes on - and that is what has got us where we are.
.
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