[modeleng] Re: (ex) Dobwalls railway

 
Rich, 

David Curwen was bought privately before the main sale, and is now at
Eastleigh Lakeside Railway. 

The nursery had previously run an indoor railway for Santa, but then laid
track etc. for the ex-Dobwalls stock. The planning people decided that this
was now change of use of the premesis, which is why they had applied for
retrospective planning permission. 

Peter

On May 27 2009, R.L. Roebuck wrote: 

Hi there Alan,

When you say planning application - it would be interesting to know what 
the planning application was about if you're happy to expand a bit on 
your original e-mail. Did they need a planning application 
for a commercial 7.25" gauge railway, or was the issue the buildings 
associated with it, or was it change of use from retail to funfair 'type

issue'?

On a slightly seperarate note - I see that one of the smaller locomotives 
from the Dobswall line was up for sale a while back on 
www.stationroadsteam.co.uk - the blue Curwen locomotive detailed here...

http://www.stationroadsteam.co.uk/stock%20pages/2981/index.htm


Yours,


Rich.

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Alan Stepney wrote:

>Most of you will know, or know of, the Dobwalls railway.
>When it closed there was much speculation about the locomotives, rolling
>stock etc, until late last year it was sold.
>
>The new owners are a garden centre near Bournemouth, in fact, not far from
>Moors Valley Railway.
>
>I see that the railway opened and has run without having planning
>permission, and the council has now rejected a belated planning
application.
>The owners have 28 days to appeal, and the council appears to be willing to
>view an application favourably, subject to some (many?) conditions.
>
>If all goes well, anyone visiting Moors Valley will have another railway
>within 3-4 miles, which will surely make a visit to both more attractive.
>
>Alan
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