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    Abellio Scotrail to Berwick?

    The county is mostly rural, but the population is mostly urban.
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    Abellio Scotrail to Berwick?

    Newcastle isn't in Northumberland. Newcastle has already had huge investments in its local rail, via Metro. Why shouldn't Northumberland get the same level of investment? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Dokeep up, the county council is planning to leave Morpeth in 2017/18, to...
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    Abellio Scotrail to Berwick?

    Spare me the unsupported assertions masquerading as superior knowledge. You appear to be suggesting that the transport hierarchy is London first, secondary cities second, and counties like Northumberland never. Why should that be? The ECML only goes through one of the three largest towns in...
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    Abellio Scotrail to Berwick?

    Would it not be better to do some transport planning for Northumberland, rather than treat our rail network as someone's private trainset? Bypassing Morpeth curve so people from outside Northumberland can get over Northumberland more quickly is the kind of selfish thinking that gives us HS2...
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    Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Reopening?

    There were two lines half a mile apart; MRCC through Pontnewydd and Pontrhydyrun to Pontypool and beyond, and the old GWR line through Lower Pontnewydd which is still in use. The line I'm talking about is the old MRCC line, although, sometime around the 60s, the MRCC route to Newport was...
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    Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Reopening?

    Yep, but Big Pit would have been railway served via the main line and Pontypool, not via the Cwmbran branch. I played rugby for a side in Old Cwmbran from about 1975, and we would routinely walk home from matches or training along the rail line. In fact we would decide, at Forgehammer, between...
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    Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Reopening?

    The dual carriageways up and down the Eastern Valley post date the railways by at least two decades. When I started commuting from Pontnewydd to Pontypool by bus in the late 70s the rail bed and bridges were still in place - so the bus went under a rail bridge at Pontrhydyrun which was the scene...
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    Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Reopening?

    The old line through Cwmbran served the old villages well, but would you really get a modern railway offering halts at Llantarnam, Cwmbran and Pontnewydd? A light rail service, of course, but that wasn't even thought about when they decided to build Cwmbran drive.
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    Why does Pontefract have three stations?

    It is a fair question though - it can seem as if whether you have a railway now was a lottery in the 1960s, with a huge impact on how we live as a result.

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