Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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#1
Never give up...
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#2
This will go the same way as the S,S,Dover that you was trying to save it will never happen cost is far to high.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#3
I,ll sign the petition,dont know if it will do any good but the Hovercraft should be saved if possible.I used it regularly as many did back in the days of duty-frees and special offers.On a good calm day there was no better way to cross the channel but not so good if the sea was rough.I came off it once feeling so ill i vowed never to go on it again.My mate who was with me was so badly seasick that he had to be brought off in a wheelchair.
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
#4
What's the point of saving something that is of no value to anyone? I appreciate there is sentimental attachment but what can be done with what is effectively a large lump of scrap metal?
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#5
The same as the vehicles in all the museums around the world, you don't advocate scrapping all of those surely?
Arte et Marte
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
not when the scrap prices are so low.
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
#7
Point taken about vehicles in museums but an old hovercraft? Hardly interesting to the masses and it's rather large and would take up a lot of space wherever it was displayed. I suppose it could be displayed within, ahem, the new port development?
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#8
There are only two left in existence and the Margaret is being allowed to go to her grave, I'm not personally fussed but it would be nice if the Anne could be saved. I wouldn't want to see taxpayer coin used but a kindly wealthy donor would be good.
Arte et Marte
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#9
Too big to be transported by road anywhere,to be moved it would have to go on its own power which i doubt is easily possible now.Could be opened up as a novelty restuarant or the like.At least it could earn some money for its owners maybe.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#10
They would tow them to anywhere if needed, they float very well though no stability without power.
My first proper job was as turnaround cleaner on the hovercraft cleaning up after Andy and his mate
Arte et Marte
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
- Posts: 661
#11
Vic- what do mean 'WAS' trying to save the word is 'AM'. The project to save TSS Dover is very much alive. I'm hoping to make an announcement over the next few weeks, confirming a landmark arrangement with new stakeholders/partners. I know we've been quiet for many months- we've been waiting for significant developments before breaking cover. There's still a long way to go but have we given up? Nah! As for costs-the previous projections I have published now pale into insignificance!
The reason I posted about the SRN4 was out of general interest in the preservation and elevation of 20th century engineering.You know - the stuff that Boy's Own mag and the 'Eagle' were made of.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Mr Moffatt sir if you want to save anything then just go out to the East Kent Railway Trust and save the steam train which I started to work on ,but because of my legs I have had to give it up . But I do not think you can save the T.S.S.Dover the cost of the whole thing is far to high ,but again only my view ,you know alot more about it and the cost and how you would rise the funding then I do so the best of luck with it ,again as for the Hovercraft it would be down to cost and where the funding would come from,I would love to see one of them if not both done up again and put back into service in the summer weeks from Folkestone to a port in France.And they have the money man over there that could just that.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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#13
I am a director of 4253 Ltd
http://www.4253.co.uk/and Southern Locomotives
Ltdhttp://www.southern-locomotives.co.uk/. I am also working on ex NCB loco 'Antwerp' at Sellindge. As for St Dunstan and St Thomas I jointly founded the group who secured them for preservation when Snowdown Colliery closed.Unfortunately the EKR does not currently have adequate facilities for steam locomotive restoration.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#14
Yes you are right there after spending over a year working on the bridge they run out of funds and they scrap it as it was just me working on it I was not happy . Then I moved on to try best working on the St Dunstan ,but working out doors on it in the kind of weather we get ,and I could not stand up for long etc I just had to give up .But they are doing a lot of work out there and the new cafe which is much bigger is now open ,they have build a new shop, trains are getting done up, a new big car park so a lot of hard work is getting done ,they have a person running it now who gets things done ,so the best of luck with all that, it needs more of the pubic to get out there and see it all and spend a few bob,Also great for dog walkers in the wood.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#15
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35551698
"Positive" talks have been held about saving one of two remaining cross-Channel hovercraft under threat of being scrapped, a museum has said. howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#16