Repairs completed on time with 20K tons of soil shifted from a cliff face for safety. Seawalls repaired
tracks relaid.
Trains running.
Estimated cost in US$ equivalent…55 million dollars…(Gulp!)
Money well-spent, IMO. Especially when you think that those poor folks west of the break had been cut off from civilisation since the track went down…how on earth they survived this long is a complete mystery to us up here in sunny East Anglia.
Now all them grockles can get to Cornwall and spend their hard-earned cash again on the only county in England with only one border.
‘Cornwall - the last place you’ll want to go in England.’.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
TAC,
Your well wishes are appreciated by all of us, in the far west, who have been ‘stranded’ since the violent storms of January. Actually the railways ran a very good bus link service between to two operating parts of the system.
Actually Tac, ‘grockles’ are those who visit Devon. The name was coined in the fishing port of Brixham in 1963 when a film was made there.
‘Emmets’ visit Corwall, or Kernow, as it is known in the vernacular.
Another piece of throw away info is that the so called Cornish pasty was actually invented in Devon a few centuries ago. The real pasty is not just meat, potato and turnips/swede; one end contained the dessert such as apple or other firm fruit. The ends were designed to be rather like handles in use so that dirty hands did not make too much contact with the pasty.