A Burnham-On-Sea project to celebrate the town’s railway heritage has this week been given a financial boost.
Burnham’s Co-operative Funeral Care in Adam Street has donated £500 towards the cost of installing a set of old railway buffers in Pier Street, where the town’s former railway line previously ended.
The Burnham Buffer Stop Memorial Project’s leader, John Strickland, welcomed the boost, and told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “This is a very welcome donation from the Co-Op for which we are very grateful.”
“We are also grateful to numerous shops and pubs in Burnham for displaying our collection jars and also to the public for making donations.”
“We are awaiting the result of our planning application to install the buffers at the corner of Pier Street and The Esplanade but in advance of this the buffer rails have now been cut to length for the pebbled area and a team of local residents are about prepare them for painting.”
“We have been donated the wooden beam, the paint and also the bolts for attaching the beam. Transporting the buffers to the pebbled site has also been donated at no cost to the project.”
The project group – comprising of John Strickland, Terry Temlett and Ann Popham – hope to install the buffers later this year.
John added: “We’ve been working on the project for over three years – the support and interest has been very encouraging but we need residents’ help to ensure the buffer stop gets installed and is in place as soon as possible to form the start of our forthcoming Heritage Trail around Burnham.”
Collecting tins are placed at the S&D Pub, Wetherspoons, The Royal Clarence, GW Hurley’s newsagents, The Railway Hotel. Cheques can also be made payable to ‘Burnham Buffer Stop Memorial’ and sent to 1 Wordsworth Close, Burnham-On-Sea, TA8 2QB.
