Rhyl hovercraft service may return

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Rhyl hovercraft service may return #841071 3rd Dec 2013 9:56am 3rd Dec 2013 9:56am
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 526 Cheshire Y yoller OP Smartchild
yoller OP Smartchild Y Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 526 Cheshire	I think we've already had a thread on the old Moreton-Rhyl hovercraft service, but I saw this on the BBC website ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25194960 ... I remember as a kid seeing the hovercraft roaring up on to Moreton Shore. What a sight.

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Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: yoller] #841098 3rd Dec 2013 1:45pm 3rd Dec 2013 1:45pm
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Gibbo Forum Addict Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,063 Oxton	Weird, I was just talking about this to someone last week. I said that if I won the Euromillions lottery and won far too much (130 million) how I'd waste some of it, and restarting the hovercraft service to North Wales and Crosby would be one!

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: Gibbo] #841111 3rd Dec 2013 3:40pm 3rd Dec 2013 3:40pm
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Pinzgauer Unregistered P	Originally Posted by Gibbo Weird, I was just talking about this to someone last week. I said that if I won the Euromillions lottery and won far too much (130 million) how I'd waste some of it, and restarting the hovercraft service to North Wales and Crosby would be one! AFTER you have remembered all your friends on wiki Gibbo !

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: yoller] #841163 3rd Dec 2013 6:46pm 3rd Dec 2013 6:46pm
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davew3 Forum Guide D Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,024 Wirral	We tried to get the people who were running the Battle of the Atlantic celebrations to put a hovercraft service for the week from New Brighton to Crosby but like every other idea it went down the plughole, with the statement Wirral Council won't do it , it requires loads of money, for you guessed, a health and safety check

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: davew3] #841187 3rd Dec 2013 8:08pm 3rd Dec 2013 8:08pm
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gizzin Enthusiast G Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 103 wirral	Originally Posted by davew3 We tried to get the people who were running the Battle of the Atlantic celebrations to put a hovercraft service for the week from New Brighton to Crosby but like every other idea it went down the plughole, with the statement Wirral Council won't do it , it requires loads of money, for you guessed, a health and safety check Yet the council can find �850k of our money to put a fire escape staircase (luxury version) in the town hall.... Who votes these socialists in? And more importantly WBC has a History of corruption and I suspect the contract went to their friends. Last edited by gizzin; 3rd Dec 2013 8:10pm. Talk is cheap.

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: yoller] #841376 4th Dec 2013 4:45pm 4th Dec 2013 4:45pm
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fish5133 Forum Guardian F Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3,929 Heswallish	talking about a fare of around �15. If a private enterprise can make it pay even just for the holiday period it would be worth seeing.

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: yoller] #841642 5th Dec 2013 4:30pm 5th Dec 2013 4:30pm
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BlueLou Member B Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 67 Wirral (duh!)	Originally Posted by BlueLou It was featured on BBC last night http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03jy6g2/North_West_Tonight_04_12_2013/ Nine minutes in. A RNLI volunteer is looking to secure funding to lease a hovercraft to launch a hovercraft service from New Brighton to North Wales, Southport and possibly Speke. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-25194960 http://www.newsnorthwales.co.uk/news/128873/hovercraft-may-return-to-rhyl.aspx I also found the volunteer's website: http://www.hoverlink.net/

Re: Rhyl hovercraft service may return [Re: yoller] #841646 5th Dec 2013 4:47pm 5th Dec 2013 4:47pm
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Emeeh Enthusiast E Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 151 Wirral	Reckon they could lend it to New Brighton?