TheBeard
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Hi have started a group to lobby and more to reopen the whole through route
its just a proposal and thoughts both positive and negative and balanced are welcomed.
Aim to Reopen the Great Central, a line from London to Manchester via Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham Sheffield built to European wider gauge, and complete the vision of Sir Edward Watkins to link the North to Europe with larger freight trains. To avoid housing and heritage by using the old Midland route in the Leicester-Nottingham corridor, and saving costs on moving those on the lines by rebuilding similar houses nearby, as a £1million house is basically only £80000 to construct. Much of the line is intact or in trackbed. A really economic way to improve capacity out of London, and Manchester, without vast expense on a white elephant. To right a complete wrong of closure.
its just a proposal and thoughts both positive and negative and balanced are welcomed.
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