Two Tunnels Shared Path

What's new here

This lists changes to the web site ...

7th March

Info on the start of work ceremony.

25th February

Steering group minutes from the 19th February meeting

22nd February - Two Tunnels blog

To help keep supporters informed of the progress with the route, visit the construction blog.

17th February - Two Tunnels business case decision

From B&NES and in favour of the route.

31st January - route ride and walk

Thanks to everyone who came along on the walk, good to meet up with faces old and new, we really enjoyed it and hope you did too! To help visualise the lost viaduct at Twerton, here's a pair of photos - the nineteen sixties image courtesy of John Yeo below a photo of the present day scene. Off-topic stuff? The film clip of the French 'Aerotrain' that some of us discussed at the Hope and Anchor can be found here. More on the Aerotrain here. 20 kilometres of the test track for the Aerotrain survives virtually unbroken, north of Orléans, France.

To January 24th 2010

Brief page on the Single Member Decision issue

To January 14th 2010

Route ride: January 30th

To January 5th 2010

Winter image from Lyncombe Vale on the home page, link to gallery of photos of the line in the snow.

To November 24th 2009

Three surprising photos, including two of the line in Lyncombe Vale, added to the gallery page.

To October 22nd

A steady rain of steering group notes ...

To May 28th

Combe Down Tunnel open day now confirmed for June 27th.

To May 14th

Recent steering group minutes now reinstated on news page. A change to the site may have enabled the fixed menu in IE7 and 8 but at the cost of somewhat messing things up for IE7. That version's not going to be around as long as this web site ...

To April 6th

New gallery for committee

To March 12th

News of the March 28th route walk and ride

To January 6th

Minor edits: general optimism.

To December 15th

Various edits, building strength for a rant if necessary, see the home page. Notes from December 15th's steering group added as well.

To December 4th

Various edits, mostly to do with pigs, partly to do with the impending restart of works on the route.

September 29th

Various updates including to pigs page, to home page to reflect the auction, to the News page so that it better carries the steering group minutes.

September 12th

A report from Bath and North East Somerset reaffirms their commitment to the Two Tunnels route, and suggests various mechanisms to ensure a low risk build phase. Note that this will now inform a decision to be made by a single member of the cabinet.

August 12th

Page with news of Devonshire Buildings' little fundraising event that could ... and did.

August 9th - 12th

Problems with a RAID disk at our isp broke the web site. Apologies if you looked for it and found rubble instead.

August 3rd

Alas no dramatic physical progress on the route yet, but things do seem to be going in the right direction owing to work behind the scenes in various directions. Meanwhile the King Bladuds Pigs are certainly going in the right direction, most of them, and we're very grateful to the organisers of that public art project for their initiative which is generating so much support for the community resource that will be the Two Tunnels Route. News as we have it, on the 'Route contruction' page

June 16th

Support message from chair of B&NES PCT trust noted on supporters page. Link to Frank's video of the route posted to 'Gallery' page.

June 3rd

With pigs appearing all across Bath and North East Somerset, an update to our King Bladud's Pigs page.

June 1st

Various updates and tweaks to the site. Home page recast and a King Bladud's Pig makes an overdue appearance there.

May 8th

Planning permission was granted on May 8th - with conditions - which are believed to be workable and practical.

May 6th

Project outline plan (pdf) for Two Tunnels route, dated April 2008.

April 22nd

The 'Bath in Time' web site has received a donation of over 80 exceptional images from the countryside around Bath in the nineteen sixties and seventies - and many feature the last days of the Somerset and Dorset railway in its landscape. This is an exceptional collection of images and the site owner has kindly allowed us use of two of the images on our gallery page - do visit the 'Bath in Time'  web site for the remainder.

April 4th

Two images added to the gallery - both from the early seventies. One of the trackbed beneath Claude Avenue bridge, the other taken from within Devonshire Tunnel looking out to Maple Avenue bridge. (Credit John Rawlings private collection)

March 21st

New route construction page.

March 10th

We're working to close the funding gap - so this is on the home page for the time being. We're also looking forward to the 15th March work party.

Feb 4th

News of our impending talk at the BRLSI and an edit or two.

Jan 28th

Added links to Blady and the rotating image of same ...

Jan 20th

Removed Bizrate advertising, so long and thanks for the fish, great help to the campaign.

Jan 8thish

Various updates to record start of construction phase and report on steering group meeting

Dec 16th

Connect2 has landed!

November 30th 2007

We have planning permission!

November 25th 2007

Updated the 'Last mile' pages with the news of its somewhat meteoric rate of sale in the Raven ....

November 19th 2007

Last Mile - the official campaign beer - now has its own page.

November 14th 2007

Various edits, added a link from the projects long standing supporter NJB Masonry . Other surprises in the offing, please revisit ...

November 6th 2007

Home page and various others changed to reflect the importance of the Connect2 vote and its connection to the Two Tunnels route. Javascript countdown clock added. Code added to the start of all pages to negate IE6's text selection bug. Menu changed to include magnetic million button. ITV film clip pushed up the page. Link to FacebookTwo Tunnels group.

October 23rd 2007

News added of Connect2 reaching the final four ...

October 6th 2007

Style sheet tweak ...

October 1st 2007

Updates to news page from the open day - Thursday 27th September 2007 - now starting to contain photos.

September 29th 2007

News from the open day - Thursday 27th September 2007

September 11th 2007

Additional information and booking form for the 27th September open day available from the event information page.

September 11th 2007

News of the date that the planning application will go to committee (i.e. 31st October). Also, an information page on the September 27th Combe Down Tunnel open day.

August 4th 2007

Quick check on the state of non validation of the html code for the site. Plenty to do there ... it's now somewhat better, and most of what's bad is in the statcounter code ... for the most part :-)

July 31st 2007

Combe Down Tunnel longitudinal section provided for the gallery by kind permission of the Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust.

July 30th 2007

Welcome message put up for the fans of Midford Castle :-)

July 17th 2007

More contributors images for the Picnic at Tunnel Gulch page.

July 11th 2007

The Gallery page now has a novel panoramic view of the route of the path.

To July 11th 2007

Frequent updates to the 'Tunnel open day' page

To July 7th 2007

We've images from the 6th July 'Picnic at Tunnel Gulch' event now on the site, linked from the gallery page among others. We'd be grateful for any other images from this day, please advise via email.

To July 5th 2007

Info and final updates for the July 6th event.

June 26th 2007

Advance notice of Combe Down Tunnel visit - see the site home page for now. Updates imminent ...

June 24th 2007

Updates to the 'Current position' page. Note of visit added to the news page.

June 14th 2007

Various edits ...

May 9th 2007

Scrapbook page from 24th March Route Ride added.

May 3rd 2007

Various ongoing updates, including less thrilling stuff such as the reorganisation of our committee/steering group names - 'The committee' being now the name of the support group's organising committee - the 'Steering group' is now the joint body formed from members from Sustrans/Bath and North East Somerset/The support group who will deliver the completed project ... to the more exciting stuff such as the date of the next route ride (26th May)

April 3rd 2007

Edits, added Arbres Tree Surgery as supporters, added a temporary link to my help pages

March 25th 2007

Route ride page updated with news from the March 24th event.

March 22nd 2007

Route Ride page updated with additional info about the March 24th ride

March 15th 2007

New link to Bath Sustrans Path Rangers Group from the supporters page.

March 14th 2007

Direct link to project mapping added to sidestep a failure of most web browsers to cope with the planning web site

March 3rd 2007

Improved information on the home page. Major announcement on the news page regarding the planning application for the path, which is now with the local authority and available from their web site. Added Monkton Combe School to the list of supporters.

February 2007

Various additions as things develop ...

January 13th 2007

Minutes of December Sustrans/Bathnes/Two Tunnels Steering Group meeting are now on the web site.

January 13th 2007

Two tunnels, and now 6 arches. NRgy's web site promotes a plan to create a further section of the railway route using two severed lengths of currently poor quality path in Radstock/Midsomer Norton.

November 17th 2006

New image from Linear Park from 1976. Mailing list membership stands at 175.

January 13th 2006

Minutes of December Sustrans/Bathnes/Two Tunnels Steering Group meeting are now on the web site.

November 17th 2006

New image from Linear Park from 1976. Mailing list membership stands at 175.

November 16th 2006

Images back on Zetnet after their webmaster sorted out a space problem for us. News of redesigned and reprinted leaflets - and the site is carrying an unobtrusive banner advert to help offset their cost (having checked 'Bizrate', the organisation concerned ...)

November 10th 2006

Added images and news of Tucking Mill Viaduct deck clearance. At the other end of the day fixed a broken image link, fixed the link to the Americal rail trails study that broke, and then moved all images except stylesheet graphics off Zetnet server for the time being to give things room to breathe.

November 7th 2006

Edits to the 'Sections' page, emphasising that Devonshire Tunnel is not open to the public at present, being owned by British Rail (Residuary) Ltd, who have kindly agreed to transfer ownership to the local authority or Sustrans in a timely fashion.

Also, changes to the Linear Park section of that page, emphasising the need for the path design to accommodate all users of what will be a shared path.

October 26th 2006

We've an autumn newsletter.

September 2nd 2006

A few minor edits and links, including B&NES guidance on use of shared paths - be Path Wise.

August 6th 2006

Added a note that we now have over a hundred members in the new Yahoogroup supporters list (Please help make this over 500!).

Also rearranged the web page footer somewhat, adding a strapline 'A sustainable tourism initiative for Bath'. Then changed that to "Soon to be the number 1 sustainable tourism initiative for Bath" ... of course, the path will also be a brilliant local resource for residents.

Also changed the line height on all pages to render the text more readable and added a link to the 'Strawberry line' path on our 'Links' page.

August 3rd 2006

News of the August 1st working party

August 1st 2006

Corrected details of ownership of Devonshire Tunnel

July 25th 2006

The proposed open day for Combe Down Tunnel on September 9th will not now happen owing to various concerns from the tunnel's owners.

July 14th 2006

Two new additions to the Gallery page - rare images of the creation of Linear Park in 1973

July 12th 2006

Mailing list pages updated to reflect changes to supporters group email list. We've switched suppliers from Google to Yahoogroups. Google was reliable, but Yahoogroups allows us additional features, including a 'Messages from listowners option that's configurable by members.

July 9th 2006

News from the path, some news on proposed changes to the mailing list, and a new Links page.

June 24th 2006

Minutes of the first Two Tunnels Working Group meeting on July 12th at Bath's Guildhall. Other updates including to the news page.

June 7th 2006

More supporters on the supporters page ...

May 29th 2006

Link to aerial images of the path in the Gallery and a gradient profile of the 'Two tunnels' section of the original Somerset and Dorset line.

May 14th 2006

Sound clip from BBC Bristol radio interview

April 20th 2006

We've a Spring Newsletter and have gathered messages about the importance of the path from our support group

March 18th 2006

Amended instructions for using our mailing list

March 15th 2006

John Yeo has kindly provided some images of the path from the time when it was a working line from his private collection and we've added them to our gallery.

March 12th 2006

A member of the Association of British Fungus Groups kindly identified our mystery (but common) fungus for us ...

March 8th 2006

We've a gallery of images from our launch weekend ...

March 7th 2006

News of how the weekend's events went ... with more to follow ... additions to the supporters list page

March 3rd 2006

Minor edit to the 'Progress' page to record the meeting with Sustrans and B&NES 'On the path' today. More news when we have it ... the Google group now has 54 members ...

February 21st 2006

Changes to the menu to help stop bustage in Internet Explorer. Slight tweak to the site and a background graphic to stop it looking so rectangular. Link to outstanding pages on German shared use paths with tunnels from Achim Bartoschek and an update on the progress meeting from the 20th. Honourable mention of the 'Royal Oak' public house - we've now realised it's that which anchors the northern end of the Two Tunnels shared path - not the Western Riverside Development. Silly us.

February 19th 2006

Improved 'Supporters' section with more info, and a new 'Ifs & Buts' page. We've been gathering a series of questions from members of the public and from supporters, so we've now a page with info on these topics.

February 10th 2006

Improved mapping for the site. News of planning involved to raise profile of this project with the public. Supporters - you now have a distinct menu section to recognise your contribution to this and help locate information for you.

January 28th 2006

Renewed mapping for the route, courtesy of the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service and reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

January 17th 2006

New Gallery page with two photos of Tucking Mill Viaduct under construction

New for January 2006

Edits, tweaks to colours and accessability, also link to new PDF for poster (since pulled, we have better artwork now and are preparing a web version ...) to promote two tunnels route, site moved to Zetnet - and http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/ domain launched

Summer 2005

Two Tunnels web site launch as a subsite on Bath Spa University's bicycle user group site

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