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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-30128617
Planning permission has been granted for a similar scheme in the past. I found one application 'permitted' in July 2004 under Planning Application Number 031361 on the Reading Borough Council planning website here...
A suggestion - HS2 should be built with UK standard platform heights and clearances throughout. I'm not suggesting building the line to UK loading gauge in terms of bridge and tunnel clearances, just using standard UK platform height and lateral clearance for all trains, so they could all use...
Following a recent discussion in the General Forum about proposed passenger services on the Cowley Branch http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=107481 , here are some ideas for further development of the track and station layout at Oxford and it's approaches...
http://youtu.be/9jYy8qzLcGc
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Steamy activities in South Devon during August and September 2014. Featuring locomotives: 5029 Nunney Castle, 4464 Bittern, 34067 Tangmere.
Excursions: Torbay Express, The Royal Duchy, The Cathedrals Express.
Locations: Dawlish, Teignmouth, Torre...
http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/Home/Light-railway-plan-for-Stortford.htm?ID=433718
"Light railway plan for Stortford?"
"A BISHOP'S Stortford resident has sketched out a radical solution to the town's growing traffic problems - build a light railway!
"At an environmental...
Both actually . . . its a modular aircraft concept where demountable passenger or cargo capsules are also designed to be moved by rail to and from the airport, so a single seat ride would be possible throughout between city centre terminals.
http://clipair.epfl.ch/concept-en
http://youtu.be/PrwaBfsgASM
Short clip of the railtour heading to Par from Bristol and passing through Newton Abbot station after being held outside for the conflicting departure of an Exmouth-bound local passenger service, FGW sprinter 150 246.
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