Bring Back the Titfield Thunderbolt!

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Tories to reverse Beeching

They'll be having some interesting conversations with Sustrans who have spent years turning a lot of the closed rail network in these parts to cycle paths.

[Zigenare]

Tories to reverse Beeching

They'll be having some interesting conversations with Sustrans who have spent years turning a lot of the closed rail network in these parts to cycle paths.

Please find somewhere nice and quiet to die, and don't make a mess.

[DaveB]

Tories to reverse Beeching

They'll be having some interesting conversations with Sustrans who have spent years turning a lot of the closed rail network in these parts to cycle paths.

£500m wont get them much.

Cost per mile of between £4.5m and £11m depending on required infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, stations ) according to this :

https://www.railfuture.org.uk/east/d...s-Analysis.pdf
Facts Sheet 7. Rail versus road: Capital costs of track | Transport watch UK


HS2 will cost around £400m per mile.

[OwlHoot]

Tories to reverse Beeching

They'll be having some interesting conversations with Sustrans who have spent years turning a lot of the closed rail network in these parts to cycle paths.

Good luck with that, considering a lot of old railway lines have been built on, or used in part for roads and road viaducts.

This all sounds like Tory dogwhistle politics to appeal to old timers with fond memories of steam trains etc etc, and is a pretty tawdry outdated vision for the 21st century.

[ladymuck]

There are definitely some routes that could/should be reopened but, as others have said, it'll be impossible to do that for all the routes axed where they have been repurposed.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Good luck with that, considering a lot of old railway lines have been built on, or used in part for roads and road viaducts.

This all sounds like Tory dogwhistle politics to appeal to old timers with fond memories of steam trains etc etc, and is a pretty tawdry outdated vision for the 21st century.

I was just having fond memories of the old Slow and Dirty which, of course, I'm too young to remember though I did have my first legover up Midford Tunnel.

[DaveB]

I was just having fond memories of the old Slow and Dirty which, of course, I'm too young to remember though I did have my first legover up Midford Tunnel.

Do **** off, there's a good chap.