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They already bought the land for it. This is the link, sorry I can't download the text: Ignore this point! I see that the link address refers to Aldridge, not sure why it's against Tettenhall in my spreadsheet!

The key words being: That is clearly better than not having that funding, and a journey begins with the first step etc. but there is lot of wiggle room in that statement. St Clears (west of Carmarthen) had funding to build an actual station, to be spent by April 2024. Deeside Industrial...

But it is the law. Fair or not. Fair to whom being the starting point. A person being deprived of a large (unexpected) sum of money may regard it as unfair if that windfall is taken away from them. If I own a strip of land (a ransom strip), behind which there is a development site which cannot...

One of the news articles suggests that the closure procedure for the existing station has commenced but that the existing station would not close until the new one opened. I think you'd know about that! [link to follow]. Here is that link, a page of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Extract:

As I said. Because, in shorthand, we live in a property owning democracy and not a totalitarian state which just confiscates other peoples property 'because they feel like it'. 1708288040 The tax was under the 'Development Land Tax Act 1976' More recently there is a discussion here...

Looking it up last night, the existing station is off to one corner of the existing settlement (south-east/bottom right), about 570m from the village centre. The new station would be 2.1km from the same point but most of the existing settlement is north of that so the distance evens out...

As a point of order Chair, it is on the National Rail website!

Because, in shorthand, we live in a property owning democracy and not a totalitarian state which just confiscates other peoples property 'because they feel like it'. I would suggest a short study of post-colonial Africa to see how countries that embarked on sequestration of property...

Both Metro and First West Yorkshire have been aware of the issue since the middle of last week. Plenty of time to correct the data or at least put up a message along the lines of 'we are aware the new timetables are not showing and are working to correct this'. Interestingly, they are available...

It's 150's, three of them, from Northern, details somewhere above.

Isn't this just crayonistas? HS2 (or whoever builds the final bit now) aren't putting this forward.

A fraction of £37m may solve that! Including providing porters to carry luggage / bicycles 24/7/365 for decades! It does seem a bit unfair that existing users are 'disbenefited', losing their long established station in favour of a new station, basically required to justify a large housing...

I think that is probably 'skimpflation' where the price remains the same but the 'quality' of the product reduces in some way. In this case a lower alcohol content, in other cases fewer channels for your TV subscription, cheaper ingredients in processed food, less frequent room cleans in your...

Hi all, I had the thread reopened to report that construction work on the station has commenced. Earthworks at the moment. As @swt_passenger mentions above, there is already a general HS2 Birmingham area thread but as HS2 is such a big project I thought it may be appropriate to concentrate...

Yes, setting up a compound may actually be more important, today, than someone being able to park at the station, today. That's how life is. Perhaps the cricket club were approached but weren't keen on having their square churned up! Sometimes we are inconvenienced for 'the greater good' (the...

Yes, I wondered if there was a space for 'no p' in front of the 'arking'. 1708092187 The National Rail Enquiries website confirms this on the station facilities page: As does the council parking page, Zone A short stay and Zone B long stay.

I couldn't tell you. Some are more transparent than others. No-one is forced to enter into that type of contract though. You can buy sim-free phones, you can buy monthly text/calls bundles rather than have an 18 month contract. I choose a calls/data package, it lasts one month, I can change that...

Yes, I think you are being a bit harsh. Closing part of the car park, for a temporary period, in order to get a job done is an inconvenience not the end of the world. Fine tuning of my view would depend on factors such as whether sufficient consultation took place, how much advance notice was...

Ah yes, equivalent to a child ticket please, whilst smoking a cigarette!

You don't need to be disorderly, merely drunk in a public place. The point (accepted) is that discretion can be and is shown - there is no compulsory breath testing of everyone with compulsory fines for those failing the test. Equally there is no compulsory checking of railcards, or compulsory...