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I would be reasonably confident in saying that the £500m cost for reinstatement is, ahem, optimistic. And their junction option for Cheadle Hulme means no overlap is possible, the capacity loss would be unconscionable.Skelton junction to Glazebrook could reopen if this goes ahead
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If more freight access to Trafford Park freight terminals is required, it would be cheaper to re-open the ex-GC line to Wigan north from Glazebrook via Culcheth as far as the Chat Moss line, ideally electrified at 25 kV AC along with the rest of the CLC line via Warrington. The re-opened line could even be used for passenger trains too.
Cheaper just to close and move Trafford Park terminal somehwere else.
Cheapest option is to move traffic to an alternative site. A more realistic option for Trafford park is to build a chord off the Chat Moss at Culceth and reopen the line to Glazebrook so you approach TP from the other side.
Port Salford isn't that far away.
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Tell you what, the woodhead line would have been a great one to go railkarting on back in the 80s while the track was still down. I think the French have the right idea...
How ridiculous
Why? Rail bikes in disused lines are a very popular holiday attraction in France, Belgium and several other countries. Unauthorized rail karting with one's own home-made vehicle is, of course, a slightly different proposition.
It looks brilliant and hilarious. I would absolutely try this if I could.
Didcot to Newbury always was, I believe, double track. Considerable chunks south of Newbury were drastically upgraded in 1942-3, including some double line sections, in preparation for D-Day, when it was a massively important transport link.
Well, it's already been rebuilt and re-instated once, in 1924! Be a bit tricky at the Basingstoke end these days!
Not just the French, it seems. Whereas in the UK we just couldn't wait to tear up the track and build an industrial estate and a housing estate over the line to prevent it ever being re-opened, in the USA they generally just close the line; that means, one day the just stop running trains on it, and abandon it'
Boris Johnson seemed to have a vision of a rail bridge or tunnel to Northern Ireland, apparently with reinstated trains running from Carlisle to the Portpatrick area. Acquaintance with an OS map should have shown how far it was to go, and the roads that have been built on the old track bed. My grandfather used to take a boat train from Newcastle 100 years ago. Following in his footsteps to trace Irish roots I can confirm that improvements to the A75 are more important - and it's a very long way from the M6/A74(M).
