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On Michael Palin's 'Himalaya' series (UKTV Documentary), when he was visiting Tibet, he made reference to a new high-speed railway line connecting Lhasa and Tibet to the rest of China. The series was filmed in 2003 or 2004, and they mentioned that it would be opened in 2008, ready for the...

Last year, when travelling down the AP-7/E-15 (Spain's east coast motorway) on the way to the Costa Blanca, I noticed that there were concrete supports in place for a new high-speed line. I think it will run from Madrid to Barcelona via Zaragoza. The Spanish 'east coast main line' runs alongside...

The third part of The Secret Life of Motorways is on tonight. Has anyone else seen this? A similar documentary could have been made for railway electrification, as the building of motorways and the electrification of the WCML started at about the same time in the late 1950s. On the first...

The completion of the Trent Valley project next year will mark another major milestone for the West Coast route. But what next? The most pressing work that still needs to be done is at Crewe and Stafford. Are there any plans to quadruple Winsford to Weaver Junction?

I am very familiar with Stoke Station and use it fairly often as it is one of my closest VWC stations (Crewe being the other). I understand that the spare, empty land to the west of the train shed (next to the canal and A500) is going to be made into a large, 500-space station car park. I am not...

Are there any special rail tours that run through the low level freight-only lines under Crewe North Junction? As far as I know, the last time any passenger trains used the independent lines was when the station had its last major overhaul in the summer of 1985, during which time trains could...

Now that the Cross Country franchise has changed hands in favour of Arriva, will the Virgin West Coast routes be renumbered? Maybe if Virgin/Stagecoach wins the Intercity East Coast franchise, routes 1, 2 and 3 could be re-assigned there?