Bloody hell, it was a post about a speculative railway line on the speculative discussion forum. Some of you are acting like I've personally offended you. There seems to be quite a bit of hostility(?) on here in response to ideas because the author doesn't know why it's a bad idea.
For the record, I merely suggested the basis of the proposal, not the exact route suggested. No Woodhead, fine. No Chilterns, well I did say it would probably be better if it went the other side of London and used the MML. I hope this doesn't leave any of you too exasperated.
The point is there are very few genuinely new ideas and a number of posters have explained the issues with these "great ideas", usually several times. And the basic issues haven't changed
I think before posting a "new" idea, even in the speculative forums, it is worth doing a quick forum search to see if it has previously been discussed - if things have changed in the intervening period or there is a new consideration then fair enough - raise it and explain why it's different to before.
Your post raising the "Great Central Railway" proposal again is a case in point - there is no business case for this and has been discussed many times. Much of the "old" GCR formation is gone, it doesn't improve current freight flows which are predominatly Felixstowe, Tilbury or Southampton to the Midlands. So what's changed?
The OPs post again didn't address anything - the idea was to take freight off the WCML but the MML south of Bedford is just as busy as the WCML and to get to Tilbury or Felixstowe would still mean getting around the already congested North London Line - so it doesn't actually address any problems, it simply shifts them about - that's before you get to the tunnel clearances on the MML.
