| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 23:00, 4th April 2025 |     |
That was exactly my reaction, Red Squirrel, when I drove my daughter down to the station to get a train to Cardiff this afternoon. I'm fairly sure all that fencing wasn't there when I drove past the station on Monday, on my way up to the Backwell tip.
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Red Squirrel at 22:48, 4th April 2025 | |
Blimey!
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:39, 4th April 2025 | |
They are at Nailsea & Backwell - I stand admonished (and ankle deep in rust). 
Has my honourable friend the member for Failand returned to Nailsea & Backwell in the past four days? I rather think he will be as surprised as I was, this afternoon.
The entire stairway up to platform 2 has now been completely closed off with Heras fencing and plastic mesh netting - not even a ferret could get up there. The only access to platform 2 is up the ramp, accessed from further along Station Close.
I can only surmise that someone at GWR or NR read Red Squirrel's original post and was so embarrassed that they immediately decided to do something to rectify the situation.
Unfortunately, I did not have the means to take pictures this afternoon, but will do so at the next opportunity.
CfN.
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by chuffed at 20:06, 27th March 2025 | |
Or Nailsea and Blackwell as a certain Michael Portaloo kept calling it throughout the programme in the first series of Great British Railways journeys some 20 years or so ago...
Had he bought his Bradshaws guide at a certain well known bookseller in Oxford ??
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:38, 27th March 2025 | |
They are at Nailsea & Backwell - I stand admonished (and ankle deep in rust).
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by johnneyw at 19:28, 27th March 2025 | |
Not sure where the steps are but they look like the next substantial storm could cause them ten grands worth of improvements.
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 11:50, 27th March 2025 | |
Some members seem to have missed the double negative! It’s not not Nailsea and Backwell, despite Chris from Nailsea’s assertion.
Due to some major building work, the Squirrels are currently living in the most triangular village in North Somerset (another quiz - where might that be?). NLS is our most convenient local station for the duration.
I was shocked at the state of the stairs - surely they will be condemned soon?
Due to some major building work, the Squirrels are currently living in the most triangular village in North Somerset (another quiz - where might that be?). NLS is our most convenient local station for the duration.
I was shocked at the state of the stairs - surely they will be condemned soon?
Oh - I stand (humbly) corrected.
Failand - very definitely a triangle.
If someone would provide the necessary £1million plus, we could have a new access ramp, bridge and lifts to both platforms ...
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Red Squirrel at 08:37, 27th March 2025 | |
Some members seem to have missed the double negative! It’s not not Nailsea and Backwell, despite Chris from Nailsea’s assertion.
Due to some major building work, the Squirrels are currently living in the most triangular village in North Somerset (another quiz - where might that be?). NLS is our most convenient local station for the duration.
I was shocked at the state of the stairs - surely they will be condemned soon?
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by bradshaw at 08:22, 27th March 2025 | |
Judging from the rust, somewhere close to sea spray.
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Western Pathfinder at 08:14, 27th March 2025 | |
Well it's definitely not Pilning!...
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by grahame at 06:19, 27th March 2025 | |
Well now there’s a conundrum… it’s not Breich, and it’s not not Nailsea and Backwell!
More seriously, but still a blindish guess - Stan Drew's Road?
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Red Squirrel at 21:37, 26th March 2025 | |
Well now there’s a conundrum… it’s not Breich, and it’s not not Nailsea and Backwell!
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by grahame at 18:12, 26th March 2025 | |
Looks like the steps when I visited Breich a few years back when it was suggested closure. Must go back.
| Re: Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 18:06, 26th March 2025 | |
NOT Nailsea & Backwell: to be fair, our steps here are maintained to a much higher standard than those.
| Where was Red Squirrel 25/3/2025 Posted by Red Squirrel at 17:51, 26th March 2025 | |
I expect this one to be resolved within seconds:
