THE man whose company owns most of Britain’s railway stations has thrown doubt on ambitious plans to restore a main line across Dartmoor.
That feeling intensified when a massive storm in 2014 destroyed part of the London-Plymouth main line and a sizeable section of the seawall at Dawlish, cutting off Devon and Cornwall from the national rail network, which in turn led to ren
ewed calls for an alternative rail route after millions of pounds in lost revenue literally disappeared down the drain.