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Well, hence Cambridge North and soon Cambridge South Stations

Wrox Wroxall is built on a steep hillside, it bulldoze through the old route or build brand new tunnels. Plus the I assume that means loss of the car park opposite the community centre and that is used by residents to park their cars, who live on the main road. A lot of the older house have no...

Anything invloving an underground station for 12 car commuter trains will be vastly more expensive than moving the station a 100 metres or so North

The long range planning options for new housing in the Oxford Cambridge axis call for a million new homes and Milton Keynes can only take so many. There are going to need to build some new towns as well as expanding the existing ones over the next 30 years. This is why east west rail and the...

I think a lot of the rising cost is from building a railway that can cope with 18 trains an hour and the cost of civils that are needed for low maintenance of track under such a punishing regime.

Well that idea wasn't about linking heathrow to Gatwick alone. It was about linking three trip attractors along one route so that you could justify enough long distance trains from the North at a decent frequency.

In a land of easy infrastructure money, there could be a way of making a link between Heathrow and Gatwick work. The current Hs2 link to Heathrow was dropped to the low number of passenger journeys compared to services to Central London, But if a propper high speed line linked at least Hs2 to...

Some may moan about over regulation but we do some of safest railways in Europe. trains. Unfenced railways are particularly bad. I remember the worst in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castelldefels_train_accident At 23:23 local time (21:23 UTC), an express train ran into a large group of...

The only real spare capacity on the Windsor lines is on the Hounslow Loop, hence the Overground proposals. What extra capacity released by infrastructure upgrades will go on more trains to Waterloo, where 99% passengers will want to go.

The East West Rail and expressway are part of building links betwenn the high tech high growth towns North and West of London. This area classified as ROSE (Rest Of South East) in geography terms has been a population growth zone since the late 1960's . The government is not laying down...

I think I read that the percentage of traffic carried by rail is at new high of 9.6%n(excluding metro systems), it is not much higher in many other countries. Japan stands at 30.5% modal share. Then the highest in Europe is Switzerland with 17.5% and Austria with 11.5% (must be all those...

rail future had a nice overground proposal for Greater Cambridge, which are part of the bid for funds. Extend a line to Haverhill and Wisbech. Redouble various single local lines, such as to Newmarket. build new junctions around Ely and four track from Cambridge North to Cambridge and then to...

The Arc between Oxford and Cambridge is a high tech high wage job and population gorowth zone. It is also the favoured arc for new housing. Reading the Oxford Cambridge expressway routing option's it's clear that they want both the new motorway and rail line to be close to each other to...

If they ever did close the railway, the DFT would have to build a pier suitable for buses at the very least. As the line is mostly single track. I can't see much point in converting it to busway. I could see the need for some new road bypasses. defintely Brading, then maybe Ryde to remove the...

When the wave of closures were happening the line was too important for transporting tourists from Ryde. Since then mass tourism has shifted abroad, more come car now, it is not so important to the Island now, but politics has shifted, no one closes passenger lines anymore, but is not important...