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Heritage line funding plea after barrier safety probe
Thursday 5th January 2012, 10:59AM GMT.
A heritage railway running between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion needs to raise £100,000 to install automatic barriers following a health and safety probe.
The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) has been told it must replace manned crossings with the barriers following an investigation of the line’s crossing procedures by the Office of the Rail Regulator (ORR).
And bosses have been told that if the barriers have not been installed by the end of this year, the railway could be prevented from running its rolling stock across public roads.
It follows an incident in September 2010, when a car ran into the side of a train on a private crossing just outside Welshpool.
While the railway was completely absolved from any responsibility for the incident, it sparked a review by the ORR into the line’s level crossings.
It concluded that at three crossings the line’s current procedures were unacceptable.
A spokesman for the railway said they were in the process of launching a fundraising appeal to find the cash.
He said: “We have obviously been made aware of what needs to be done to improve the health and safety of the light railway and are currently looking to find what will need to be done to improve the level crossings.”
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