Clive
p.s. Anyone know why my 'capitals' randomly don't happen?
@stephen15 - my personal current view (and i must declare my interest lies down the line in cornwall) is this. from an overall strategic sw perspective and for robust engineering, there should be three lines (money no object which of course it will be!) but in the following order: 1. Coastal route made as permanent as possible, and that means more than just make do and mend the current ...
@stephen15 - my u/c and l/c get written back to front on what seems like random occasions!
@MARKC - that is a wonderfully detailed and interesting insight, thanks. it also illustrates that before calling for a 'gw2' (a pun adopted from hs2, i believe, i.e. a fast dal) one needs to be 'careful what one wishes', as the saying goes. that is, there will quite likely be all the same basic issues of planning and cost as on hs2 - 'wanting a new station (e.g. a 'dawlish parkway') but not the ...
Ah, the 'one train in steam solution' - Best technical guess is that there may be an 'interfacing issue' with other movements at the Exeter end. If you want to be more cynical, it may also be to do with costs vs. receipts !
@Lynne , i am in the 'sarah newton constituency'. quickly scanning through her website there is no obvious hint of support for any form of avoiding line, simply a comment that the gov't has "... committed £31 million to fund 10 rail-resilience projects in the south-west to improve the local rail network’s resilience against flooding." 'a drop in the ocean' you may say (sorry about the pun), ...
Thanks Lynne, worth a thought if of interest to a wider audience. I should confess that living in West Cornwall I may have a slight bias of opinion about speed and reliability though. I ain't quite 'The Man in Seat Sixty-One' but one cannot help but note that countries such as Portugal universally have modern 25kV lines (ok the country sort of went bust) even where services are only 3 ...
I would agree with this as far as it goes Stephen, all power to NR to do this or similar to make the sea wall as resilient as possible as the first and most important task. Not least because the good folk of Dawlish also deserve to have their seafront businesses and homes protected as well. A win-win situation courtesy of NR (general taxpayer). Observing the way gov't spending often seems ...
Dawlish Avoiding Line (DAL) 1. If the hundreds of millions of pounds lost to businesses over the next two months is to be believed then between now and the next election (or as and when the sea wall fails again) is a glorious opportunity for commitment to beefing up the rail links properly. 2. Dawlish is on the map as a household name because of its attractive albeit tenuous railway line. ...
