You might think so, I couldn’t possibly comment**cough** BML2? **cough**
Proponents of schemes rarely take no for an answer.
There is that of course.
No, we should let them judge and they are less happy in surveys but feel it is the best available option they can afford. British urban housing has been neglected, is often impractical for modern life and some is almost modern slum. British villages are often either unaffordable to many or too remote for work. So people make do with suburban sprawl estates out near recent ring roads, unhappy. Changing this could start with changing what infrastructure is funded.
At least that would be a more relevant project title than Thameslink 2000!
Looking at the list of schemes, I'm disappointed that 'reopen this station', and 'redouble this line' have been included in the list of projects.
I think Beeching did close a lot of stations , in what are now growth /boom towns like Wantage , and Wooton Bassett.
Although those last two mentioned are actual rail line reopening proposals and should be rightly be on the 'restoring your railway' list of proposals.
The answer is that Johnson doesn't care about Beeching specifically. He wants a list of 'quick wins' that allow him and his fellow Tory candidates to demonstrate that people should keep voting for them at the next election as they'll come round and open your local station.
The money put aside for the overall initiative is not enough to reinstate more than a handful of lines. Station reopenings and redoubling have to be included make the whole thing seem bigger than it is.
Just to quote your post once more.
Just to quote your post once more.
With Wantage, any station on the GW mainline would in effect be 'Wantage Parkway', as the station would be around two and a half miles from the centre of Wantage itself.
How about 'Wantage Road'? And maybe a tramway/ light-light-rail connection? Opportunity for the return of Shannon?Just to quote your post once more.
With Wantage, any station on the GW mainline would in effect be 'Wantage Parkway', as the station would be around two and a half miles from the centre of Wantage itself.
Tramway/light rail would be overkill surely? An electric shuttle bus through Grove to Wantage would be enough wouldn't it?
Don't forget though that govt policy seriously skews costs. Eg if lorry tax was tripled and lorry fuel taxed so as to hit environmental goals then rail might well be cheaper for many more flows. Road is cheap because that's what government taxation makes it. Rail is also burdened by having to pay for its boundary fencing for example.
Exactly this. Where is that like button?
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It would need to have the motion enclosed so as not to impose danger on the horses it would be passing on the way into Wantage though.
The £0.5B allocated to restoring your railway fund isn't going to buy much with this one estimated at
for 5 miles. Like to see where all the money is going on this one this ought to be less than Okehampton for trackwork.
Given that the cost estimates include things like electrification and frequency, I'd say the figures quoted included things like rolling stock procurement as well. But the trackwork at Fleetwood won't be cheap, as it'll need to be taken back to the subgrade and laid from scratch. Does anybody know if the junction is still present or if it will need a signalling change as well?
I think the junction (assuming you mean the one where the Fleetwood line leaves the Blackpool line) was removed when the Blackpool line was upgraded a few years ago.