PLANS for a rail line linking Elsecar with a coal mining memorial park at Cortonwood have hit the buffers.
Elsecar Heritage Railway has already used £50,000 lottery funding it was granted to develop the park, but has been with a line to nowhere.
Tim Rodber, the railway's director of operations and training, said there was no money for ballast (stone chippings) and sleepers needed to finish the last part of the track linking Hemingfield to Cortonwood.
Mr Rodber, 71, said the £50,000 was used specifically for works in Cortonwood park and was gobbled up in labour costs, repairing the land and putting up fencing.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated July 31. **
