[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

Sheffield folk will know of the long running saga of the "Woodseats Road Railway Bridge"

Now comes news that East Midlands Trains want to have barriers installed on it, and impose tolls on pedestrians wanting to cross from one side to the other.

[SamT]

 

[Andy B]

I fell for that, until I read the Gorge du Loup thread.

[GraemeA]

Anyone with a Works full membership will be exempt from the toll fee 

[aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB]

If I'd put a bit more thought into it, I'd've come up with some tale about the Dukes of Norfolk having sold the strip of land "from the confluence of the Totley Brook and the Old Hay Brook up to and including that river crossing known as 'Heeley Bridge' " (and associated "air rights") to the former Midland Railway in "order to allow the good governance and operation a locomotive-powered train service upon metalled tracks", thus assigning those historical rights to East Midlands, and not the formal owners of the land - Railtrack.

Still. Too late now.