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The Great Central as an alternative to HS2? Nonsense

William Barter Potcote, Towcester, NN12
16 August 2019
 

Your Media Monitor reports a suggestion by Ross Clark in The Spectator that reinstatement of the Great Central Railway is a readily-available substitute for HS2 (‘New Prime Minister urged to abandon HS2 scheme as costs continue to rise’ LTT 02 Aug). This sounds too good to be true. Indeed, it is. 

Given the extent of new construction required to access cities and replace route lost to developments, and taking the capacity and speed opportunities presented by building new,...

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