They have been very busy out the back of my house, upgrading and improving the rail line to electrify it - no pylons added yet. At the back of my garden, is a fairly new railway metal fence, 50 or so yards of railway wasteland, covered with bramble, the odd tree and bush, then the two lines, in a shallow cutting. A couple of weeks ago, they came along with a very large digger, and cleared a pathway alongside the fence, about 20 feet wide, but left the growth alone between the line and the cleared path, in fact all the debris from the cleared area, was piled up between cleared path and lines. The cleared road/path, only runs for some 200 yards, where there were no trees, then terminates where there are trees.
There is already a wide access road directly alongside the line, which leads to some sort of newish signal building, so why would they spend a couple of days clearing this, alongside our back fence? They cleared a similar path, but much narrower, when they replaced the rotted timber original fence around 10 years ago, but much longer.
Not complaining, because the sheer quantity of bramble, posed a bit of a fire risk, to my own property, and it's always trying to makes its way through the fence - just curious as to why the would do it? Besides which, I have no special liking for blackberries.
There is already a wide access road directly alongside the line, which leads to some sort of newish signal building, so why would they spend a couple of days clearing this, alongside our back fence? They cleared a similar path, but much narrower, when they replaced the rotted timber original fence around 10 years ago, but much longer.
Not complaining, because the sheer quantity of bramble, posed a bit of a fire risk, to my own property, and it's always trying to makes its way through the fence - just curious as to why the would do it? Besides which, I have no special liking for blackberries.
