May
28
After a great week last week the Wear Radio review team decided to venture again to somewhere in the dale, and today for our review team we took to the Railway!!!
Some of the team where like kids, so excited for the train ride they fairly skiped along to the new platform at “Bishop Auckland West”. Once there they waited with around 30 other like minded guys for what was to be a great train ride!!
The trian ride did not dissapoint, it was thrilling and enjoyabile through Whitton-le-wear then Wolsingham onto Frosterly and finaly stopping at Stanhope at 12.30 for us to detrian and spend three hours having a look around Stanhope and get some lunch.
But Alas, the team were dissapointed to find that Stanhope as a village had not risen to the opertunity that the new railway had given them, with lack lustre pub offering,s, very limted food, and poor hospitalty. Then shops with staff telling us, that the railway was a bad thing as no one would walk up the bank to get in the village (we had just walked??), so the team felt let down, and in deed made a dash to return on the very next train only to find it was not till 15.25! So a cold wet 2 hours was spent in Stanhope station, waiting to get home to Bishop Auckland…. A Great Day planned and had started as such was spoilt by the Weather and a village that on the face of it did not want to grasp what Weardale Railways can bring them What A Shame….
