'to providence to lecture' (golden valley parkway)

'to providence to lecture' - thoreau, this day in 1854.

by railway (though the river is frozen and he considers skating). 

horsemouth is back from the bell-ringing. it's another day with an entirely written in the morning blogpost. as usual he feels a bit brain dead. he has his coffee. he has unleashed the chickens and taken the milk over to the garage. 

the weather is decent. 

of course horsemouth would like a railway station a mile and a half down the road (blue dot). this is even though the main use of it for him - getting back and fore to london more easily -  is ending. what it will do is drive up the price of houses locally (horsemouth thinks) but he is less bothered by this than he might otherwise be.  it will probably drive more tourism (the golden valley, walking, cycling, the abbey, orcop hill etc.). with a bit of luck it will drive more housebuilding locally (particularly council house building) but horsemouth doubts it. 

a railway station at pontrilas (the proposed golden valley parkway) would allow easier access to abergavenny and hereford, to newport and to leominster, to cardiff and to ludlow, and ultimately to london, manchester and birmingham.

there is an existing bus service but there are only 6 or so buses each day with the last at 6pm or so (one every 2 hours) compared to a train abergavenny to hereford every half hour or so and running to much later at night.