Letter: New approach needed to Wellington railway station
Saturday 24th July 2010, 8:58AM BST.
Letter: It is grand to see the “regeneration of Wellington”. Millions of pounds have been spent on swopping the bus station and car park round, digging up New Street and laying super-duper new paving, not to mention the civic centre being built.
Would not be possible, with a bit of the change left over from these projects, to put aside a few bob so that the station approach could be resurfaced?
I’ve noticed there is a brand spanking new sign at the front of the station telling us all “Welcome to Wellington”. Perhaps I’m wrong, but is it not usual to welcome visitors to the town when they get off the train, rather then when they are leaving to catch the train home?
The first view visitors to our town see, if they come by train, is the station approach full of potholes.
These are the same potholes that resulted, last Friday, in a very good friend of mine (Geoffrey Jones, aged 72) ending up in hospital.
He is a retired gentleman who cares for his disabled wife and who two or three times a week pops into the Station Hotel for a drink with the other old boys. He is not long out of hospital as a result of another unrelated illness. He came out of the hotel mid morning to catch the bus home. He is, as of today, still in PRH and his wife is, again, being cared for in a home.
Could T&W Council, therefore, put the resurfacing of the station approach a little bit nearer the top of the to-do list before visitors to our town take one look and get back on the train, or more importantly, before one else ends up seriously injured or worse?
Paul Lynam
Dothill
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This is not as easy as it seems, Paul.
I recall a bit of a fuss a few years ago when Severn Trent refused to repair a burst watermain outside the station Hotel, because apparently Station Approach (or Station Road as it is otherwise known) is Railway land. I remember someone telling me that the hotel and the road are not covered by West Mercia Police, but by the British Transport Police, so it is likely that the council is not responsible for maintaining the road surface.
Maybe someone from the council could get in touch with Railtrack (or whatever they call themselves these days) and get the road sorted? Because you are right. It’s in a dreadful state.
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