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The suggested £100m loan would get you about 40 extra vehicles, not enough for what is needed which is 1x AC motor car for each of the Voyagers. More capacity and no more long distance running under wires.

Wisbech is a big place in it's own right. Ely and Cambridge are higher order centres. It is a very good fit although Kings Lynn would be drawing much traffic as their nearest place of a higher order.

The arguments for a link to central Cheltenham are explainable and have been explained. You have become fixated by out of town employment and other excuses. It is perfectly possible to do but very unlikely as it is not very high up any list. That doesn't mean it is without merit.

That point has been covered already. You are fixated on who would not benefit from a link to central Cheltenham rather than the many who would.

At £7,000 for every man, woman and child in Wisbech the £200m looks to be. The £1bn figure would be not far short of paying to abandon the town completely and build a brand new home in Ely or Cambridge for every single family.

I would have thought Frome should be a more pressing case for a better service, but it looks like these luminaries don't understand why Filton is important while lumping Wales into the too difficult category. In that part of the world, high-speed means any service that is faster than the age of...

It doesn't need doubling, just a loop to pass two trains without blocking up either Bradford or Thingley Jns.

Theoretically a 9 car IET has about 650 seats and a fair few standing every 4mins, in each direction. But every train stopping reduces that while a 4min frequency also seems to dictate every other train will either go towards Paignton or end at Newton Abbot. In practice it is more like one 650...

Worth noting at £200m for 7 miles, HS2 would have cost £9.6bn. This is a branch line with no tunnels on an existing formation that carried trains not that long ago.

If strategic infrastructure is needed it can and should be built. The rest are just excuses by people who don't want whatever is being proposed.

It is called 'speculative ideas'? Somewhere central, convenient for shopping, education and employment.

The tram option could be viable but will require a change at Cheltenham Spa for heavy rail. The existing buses Cheltenham Gloucester are very slow and being able to do central Gloucester to central Cheltenham in on go on the same vehicle, in about 12 mins vs 50-60mins by bus, would be a great...

That is highly speculative and as Cheltenham is still the closest central business and employment area probably not true either.. A debate about whether the number is <>50% or less is fairly pointless, a lot of people will be driving from both Cleeve to Cheltenham and the railway station...

I have explained where railways will succeed and where they won't. Those basic facts haven't changed in 50 years. Unfortunately rail rarely succeeds when confronted with out of town shopping and employment except where these are built around new stations. A railway from Gloucester to...

That is because as a Cleeve to Railway service the bus is completely useless. Cleeve has an ideal demographic for rail use and there will be plenty of rail users almost all driving and parking, just like what will inevitably be going on at Churchdown. Joining the whole lot together would be a...

There can't be an easier way to speed up London - Cheltenham by 10mins. Indirectly would probably improve connections from Swindon to the North. Site has very good road connections and plenty of tin sheds nearby that can be knocked down for the inevitable car ****. But it must include some...

I haven't exaggerated the time taken, you have reimagined Cheltenham Spa to be the town centre. Not for the first time.

You seem to be arguing all railways are a waste of time in that case. Just because you can find one person who won't benefit, nobody should benefit. Railway succeed when they connect places of residence with places of work. Connecting Cleeve with Cheltenham and connecting Churchdown with...

It would be a serious failure to address the symptoms by building a Racecourse P&R without addressing the cause - Bishops Cleeve development. Cleeve needs a fast connection both to the centre and to the railway not a bus taking 45min to Spa, off peak.

They just need to get some alignment between the employer and certain trade unions who seem to delight in making it as difficult as possible to train their members. An industry will not succeed when many of its employees are actively working against their employers interests and don't have a...