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when I was about 10 (nearly 50 years ago) I used draw might-be motorways maps on scraps of paper like that... this is basically no better or worse from a fantasy perspective

A few years ago when working in London I used to take 'the drain' to get to the City from the South Bank - as a point-to-point line - everyone piles on at one end, everyone piles off at the other, there is no way on this earth an intermediate stop, wherever it is, would ever work.

You do know that South Wales is a 'Low Cost Location'? Why do you think loads of jobs/roles got sent to Newport a few years back (creating monstrous numbers of journeys up and down the M4 and Wales-Paddington Railway in the process)

to be fair roadside kerb height variation is far less than platform height variation - despite the 'goodness' in DDA regulations, exhorbitant costs still trump it in many cases (you only have to look at the tube for that)

This I find interesting because as a resident of and reasonably regular user of the station at Romiley I still don't know which services through it will be Bee Network or not? Is it only the (slower) route via Hyde to Rose Hill in Burnham's 8-line plan, or does it also include the (faster)...

Cambozola! End of!

I think you're going to run into whats left of the driveable roads at that side of Piccadilly Gardens - to avoid that its going to have to either go 'on-street' until it reaches the point where it meets the current line coming in from Aytoun Street OR swing back over before the horrid/pointless...

I wondered what happened to this - has been many years since that link was mooted - hasn't there been an empty bridge over the redirected A57 in Irlam for years?

Expect the Bratislava trams to get some visits next week - I'll be able to tick them off myself.

If anyone thinks that HS2 was put in a hideously expensive 30-odd mile tunnel under the Chilterns because the line needed to be straight and level they are kidding themselves - an army of self entitled nimby's (with their Conservative MP backers) who do not give a sh*t about anywhere north of...

and Pearl & Dean Music blaring out before the Kia Ora "too orangey for crows" advert! Enjoy!

This is HS2A and HS2B Western Leg without either Crewe or Manchester Tunnel - I'm sure just magically chopping those two out of the spiralling HS2A/2B costs gets you the same 35% saving does it not?

Even my missus said that watching it tonight FFS! Out of interest the hack device was the same one I use to control my Model Railway (actually just a tram right now) it was even described as such (in mysterious code) during the programme "thats an SBC" said the heroine trapped on the GatEx...

I see Lord F'Nar F'Nar Esquire of Cheshire was squealing on BBC this evening about how tiresome the continued uncertainty on his pile in Cheshire was negatively affecting him and his family tonight - f**king nobhead!

Waiting till 6pm before driving into the Congestion Charge Zone in Central London - I had a works grace and favour flat in Lambeth which on the way in I couldn't get to until the 6pm deadline before I could park it and get it tucked safely away from the TfL cameras

I know I'm opening an old conversation, and maybe no longer relevant, but... the Costly Manchester Tunnel which delivers just two additional lines into the Piccadilly throat - given that Piccadilly down to Stockport is 4 tracked (and effectively 6 if you include the styal line) would it not...

doesn't answer the Crewe tunnel problem, just recognises Crewe is a problem. I have no idea (though I can guess) whether there is enough through lines/platforms at Crewe to support the incoming Cheshire Connector and outgoing Staffordshire Conenctor without a tunnel or other bypass. And agreed...

was this the one that one end on the south side rested on an island whcih latterly had a pub extension built on to it before being demolished for Metrolink? The furthest of these two?

don't understand this reasoning, if there is an objective to reduce domestic flights DO NOT serve airports, serve city centres. the only reason anyone goes to an airport for a domestic flight is because its the only way to get between the cities that the airports serve - cut the airports right...

interesting to read this in the light of HS2 P2 cancellation - clearly Packages P2A and P2B come back into the realm of possibilities now