furnessvale
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Would you have rather the land had been sold off piecemeal to lots of local farmers and developers? I don't believe Sustrans would stand in the way of any serious transport scheme (which should be able to afford to build a parallel replacement trail anyway), but I can understand their reluctance to reliquish a popular leisure facility in the case of a small speculative heritage railway project in every case. Of course, apart from through tunnels perhaps, a low speed single track heritage operation is more suitable to coexist with a path on a former double track alignment.
At least three freight schemes have been abandoned when Sustrans refused to give the railway line back.
Their demand for a replacement cycle track in each case was unrealistic as each would have cost as much as a new railway formation, defeating the objective.