Like many other residents of Sutton, I’m relieved to have my broadband back up and running.  That was some serious piece of network outage, wasn’t it?

But the restoration of normal service means I’m able to report on the excellent meeting last night for those interested in the project being spearheaded by local resident Brian Watson to ‘tidy up’ the remnants of Sutton’s railway station at the end of Station Road next to Bow Cottages.

There was a good turnout of people of a range of ages and length of time in the village, all keen to support this project with their time, ideas and different skills. This isn’t going to be a matter of running trains again – but of carrying out some kind of clearance of the overgrowth covering the platforms, and perhaps putting some seating in and an information plaque.

Several people also came up with some excellent ideas about a web-based archive, and also a physical archive somewhere which people could visit and see.  This sounds like just the kind of community-based project that shows why Sutton is such a great place to live.