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You've obviously never cycled along the Camel trail. It's so busy it needs every inch of its formation. And as others have said, it was never double track to begin with.

It very much fulfils a tourism transport need. In the summer it brings thousands of tourists into Dartmouth every day, who would otherwise require parking. Unlike most heritage railways there is minimal experience on site other than the train ride itself, pretty much all the passengers head into...

I would respectfully disagree. I believe the line in its current form carries more tourists into Dartmouth than a national rail line ever would. For me the ideal would be for a commuter DMU over the line in the morning and evening, but keep the Steam service during the day.

I watched this go through on Traksy this morning. It didn't lose any time between Teignmouth and Dawlish Warren, but then sat (unscheduled) at the platform there for about 7 minutes. There were two Plymouth - bound trains waiting at Exeter St D, that sat there for ages, eventually departing...

Traksy shows T3 between Dawlish Warren and Teignmouth on the Down line (closest to the sea), 5Z98 leaving Dawlish Warren towards Exeter, and 1A78 running on time approaching Totnes en-route from Plymouth to London. Sea conditions are pretty benign. Looks like the engineering team did an...

Certainly there has never been a car ferry service to any of these places.

Folkestone was owned by the railway, and so the harbour dues were significantly cheaper than Dover. Sealink UK in particular used to try to offer services from the port for this reason. The harbour is much smaller than Dover, and only ever had one single deck linkspan, so capacity was limited...

I also love Windy. I like that it treats the viewer as an intelligent person, giving lots of 'raw' data, rather than just dumbed down symbols. It means that you can also judge how accurate the forecast is likely to be.

The Netherlands is a flat and densely populated country, with an appropriately frequent outer suburban type rail service. It would be a good yardstick for the Network Southeast area, but it really doesn't compare to rural lines in the Penines and Cornwall.

From someone in a different industry with similar challenges, thankyou to you and all those making these decisions. It isn't easy, but so far, listening to a storm raging outside my window at almost exactly the same strength as the very impressive scientists at the Met Office forecast it, it...

Surely for passenger demand it's better to have the ability to run 10 carriage trains than to be limited to 7 carriages?

From different directions. The view to the south is definitely worth seeing twice!

I like sitting on the left, especially from Plymouth to St Germans. Great views over the dockyard and over the Tamar and Lynher river from all the viaducts.

Not remotely! As has been explained multiple times on this thread already. Firstly you have to consider that you are describing two virtually independent projects. A 'fairly simple' reopening to Tavistock would cost around £150M. This would be single track, bare minimum signalling etc. To...

There is no magic money tree. It is not possible to do everything. Clearly the collective lives of 10,000 people are worth 100 times more than the collective lives of 100, even if this fact is uncomfortable. Similarly for railways - a new line serving a town of 20,000 clearly has around double...

I agree that one of the big problems with Tavistock to Plymouth is that it only really connects those two places. For long distance travel from Tavistock, the railway will still be uncompetitive with the road, due to the need to double back. But if it would cost £150M for Tavistock, its at...

The estimate comes from an extremely experienced industry source on this thread, and certainly seems to be in line with other similar projects. I agree - I think it is a very long way off being good value for money.

Givven that that's enough money to buy every household in Tavistock a £25k new electric car (which, whilst utterly ridiculous would give much more environmentally friendly travel to Tavistock than a 1980s sprinter), I would disagree that this is a reasonable use of taxpayers funds.

I'm obsessed with my local authority not wasting money on a study that will clearly show that the line doesn't make sense to reopen. Saying that there will be minimal inbound tourism traffic really isn't a spurious reason. Tavistock is a good place to explore the moor from if you have a car...

The UNESCO site is huge, and has lots of interesting places to go. Tavistock really isn't one of its highlights. Tourists don't look at the features of the UNESCO site and say 'I must go to Tavistock' in the way they may well decide to go to Cotehele from Calstock. There is a fairly easy and...