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Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by JFlambo, Mar 3, 2015.

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  1. ghost

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    Interesting - thanks for the reply!

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    On lines that were never built, but in this case engineered. The Yeovil chord off the Weymouth Castle Cary line to Yeovil junction, this would enable Bournemouth / Weymouth Exeter services
     
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    Why stop at East Grinstead, carry on through to Three Bridges.
     
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    I wouldn't sign a petition that has such a glaring error as saying the Local Authorities have sold off land for development. Closed railway land was sold by the British Railways Board which had no interest in preserving the continuous right of way. If a Local Authority wanted to preserve such routes it had to buy the land at market value. This was not too difficult in the country where one would be talking of agricultural value, but realised only when embankments were removed, cuttings filled and contaminated soiled removed. In urban areas where the principle of a Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development applied one would be expecting the Authority to pay building land prices just to sterilise a long thin area of land. In the climate of the 1960s/70s these railways were thought of as gone for ever and it was unsurprising that so many routes were lost.
     
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    On the subject of railway lines planned but never built how about linking Chinnor with Cholsey & Wallingford...?


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    Linking into another thread. IWR to Brading if the line to Shanklin closes then Brading Hertiage Group reopen Brading to St Helens (Station still exists).
     
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    In terms of access to the most amount of track for the minimum amount of work or cost, then getting the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway to Swinden quarry would be a great project even if it did mean a reversal. Its a very long branch line (8 miles plus?) that must cost network rail & Tarmac no small amount to maintain just for heavy quarry trains through some lovely scenery. Sharing the cost of operations with a heritage railway just might one day be attractive to them.
     
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