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Legal precedent sez, "Complete the project, or return the money." Sam

NOW we're told, 77 billion dollars committed and years late, for a slow train to.. nowhere! Sam

Massive cost over-runs and delays. https://news.yahoo.com/california-nixes-plans-high-speed-la-sf-rail-211018410.html

Delays and hugely excessive overruns...sounds like UK electrification woes? Sam http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-increase-20180309-story.html

Eyes wide shut? Sam

How about this? http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/stockton_st_johns/index.shtml

Yeah, we love our cars...Thanks, General Motors! Great gains in last 20 years in commuter patterns. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/06/yep-l/1088205001/ As to the shady Mr. Marples not being a criminal, look at his Wikipedia reference. Sam

The UK had Mr. Marples (a criminal favouring car/lorry interests over rail) and Dr. Beeching, tasked with culling unnecessary railways from British Rail; in the States we had collusion on a much larger scale to destroy commuter rail (especially well-run electrical tram operations, which were...

No, the "legacy" system was, and is, PTC. That system was mandated to have been installed, I believe, in 2015 on passenger routes; the "management", not the crew, should be held accountable. The NTSB can only recommend, but AMTRAK could have, and should have, insisted that PTC be installed...

The above is in reference to the updated New Adlestrop Map, by Mr. Fairhurst. The updated map is a great improvement; one caveat: the invaluable "Find" function, which I use extensively to pinpoint stations, is not functioning correctly; it does not bring the requested station to the center...

I walked this line (19 miles as the crow flies, 24 if rail route is followed, which I did mostly)...It took from about 5 AM til sundown, in early Oct 2005. I don't think you could find a more rewarding hike! Lovely people, and wonderful vistas of the sea along the UK east coast, especially at...

The Federales have a LOT to answer for, not just to... "say about it". In England, the Great Western Railway started providing, in the cab, signals to warn the driver that he may have missed a distant signal; and the ability of the driver to deal with the situation by actively cancelling the...

Oops, I was confused. The following article in the Seattle Times of June 2016, last paragraph, implies Sounder, not BNSF, ownership of that trackage. Sam https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sounder-south-trains-so-popular-sound-transits-trying-to-add-more/

Originally the line was owned by a private freight operator (BNSF?). When local government took it over for commuter operations, part of the investment was to provide for straightening out the subject curve; later this was determined to be too expensive, and was dropped. Soooo, a trap was set...

Wow! Just saw the progress made, especially around Liverpool. It has been many more than 2 years; I had thought Mr. Fairhurst gave up on updating. There are some mistakes (I pointed out a few to the author years ago), but it is, without doubt, one of the best resources around, and I've been...

Here's a few... http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/sites.shtml

What are the speed limits on the up and down lines for Harrow and Wealdstone?

http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/RAIB_Earthworks2008.pdf

Looking at it from another way, shouldn't road users be made to pay fully for road usage, AND rail users also for rail? Smart Cards can now register milage used by cars and lorries, and (with GPS) monitor which roads were traveled; then roads and rail would be on an equal footing (possibly...

I just google-earthed that turntable; my historical images go from 1945 to 2008; it is shown in place during all that time, or so it seems. Sam