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Streater scribeth thus
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:
If we're going to spend 20 billyun or so on
the railways, lets use it to remove choke points (like the Welwyn
viaduct) or make more lines 4-track from end to end. And improve the
west coast main line north of Stoke or Rugby or wherever it is that
they're still using wooden railway lines.

The first and most basic thing is to repair the collapsing bridges and
get rid of level crossings.

Then start building stations where cars and busses can get to them, i.e.
NOT on the middle of congested towns.

That too. If they'd had four tracks Cambridge to wherever, perhaps I
wouldn't have been staring out the office window at a freight train that
arrived at Cambridge station in the morning and spent all day in the
sidings waiting for a slot.


I believe there is a plan afoot to extend the Two tracks South of
Cambridge to four at some stage...


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Tony Sayer