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Yesterday, I traced this line on Streetmap. Has there ever been a more sinuous route in the British Isles? No chance. I think the Gwili Railway has the best idea. More suited to a bush 'plane service with landing grounds along the route. But that isn't legal in the Land of Uk where we have to...

Is it being done by NR or their Contractors?

Porthmadog now has a by-pass.

For a minute, I thought you were referring to Alaska!

Go North young man. Go North! :wink:

Well, at least they are probably being honest. I find my biggest problem is getting contractors and clients to envisage all the minor niggles, problems, rework, delay, usw that make up a realistic programme. In selling the job, they ignore all that, (or, are incapable of thinking of them) and so...

About fourteen years ago I drove from Newport (SW) to Caernarfon (for Amlwch) in a direct line. It took 9 to 5:30 and I encountered 13 temporary one-way traffic light controlled road works. Do you wonder that AMs fly to Cardiff in less than an hour? Could build a Cambrian Coast Expressway for...

Funnily, I did a few month's procurement for them over ten years ago and it was for NR's rail refuelling depots all over the place.

Very good po8.. It all depends on how the economy goes. Another crisis like 1973-5 will change the game. I trust you'll be around to see this through?

Politically, Wales needs tying together without relying on the greatest way around. Ireland is doing such a re-opening in the far west of Ireland. How are they justifying and paying for it?

Thus spake Zarathustra.

They (politicians) do it all the time! They would be daft if they didn't. Oh, is that a Freudian slip or an oxymoron?

May I naively ask, what is cold plate? Sounds a bit fishy or could it be cold meat?

Ahhh. Very nice for some, but Camden doesn't want to de-populate. Rather the other way around. They are looking to solve their housing shortage out of this deal and intensify. Don't ask me why! :grin:

When a hurricane in France knocked out their 400kV transmission network, our OHL teams went over there to help out, some years ago.

The box is over a kilometre long. To the east of the station, just within the box, there is a diamond crossover both ways. There is also domestic turnback facilities at Ebbsfleet on both the Fav and Dover lines. No end of possibilities.

Yeh. I know that. Just didn't think they had grasped the nettle yet. There's also two at Stratford I didn't mention. Edit: is it six or seven years since those Waterloo platforms became available? :roll:

If that's the quality of evidence to MPs, then there's no hope of sensible decisions.

StP has what? Four Euro* tph and five international platforms. There are, at least, four suitable platforms extant in London and no suggestion of using them. Extend Euston on the west side only, using the carriage shed space and some significant demolition. Insert 4 to 5, 415m platforms, on...

It's been plain for a long time that politically, economically and practically, Euston re-building is not viable. Firstly it's squeezing a quart into a pint pot. The extent of demolition and it's value, to be replaced elsewhere is staggering. Central London land values are not the same as in...