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Old 18-07-2022, 11:19   #46
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Re: Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) opens

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The real scandal of the Beeching cuts isn’t just that lines were closed but that no provision was made to reverse closures in future. The Beeching Report was as complacent as it was short-sighted.
One of the dafter things was making Milton Keynes a new town at the same time as lifting the rail connections to Oxford and Cambridge. Completely disconnected thinking. Same thing happened with Skelmersdale too. Siloed thinking.
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Re: Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) opens

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Why have they decided not go ahead with this?

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It often is and the problem with a built-up trackbed often makes it almost impossible to reinstate former lines.
Manchester’s Metrolink has shown it can be possible in certain settings - parts of the network run on, or alongside, main roads while other parts re-use abandoned heavy rail routes. There is a long term plan on my local line to convert it from heavy rail to metro, because much of it was axed by Beeching and has since been built on. What remains barely avoided closure in the 1980s (freight usage saved it long enough for the local transport authority to get its act together) but despite the popularity of the line these days there’s simply no way to restore any more of it by traditional means. However, by converting the entire line to light rail, the lost sections of track bed can be bypassed by making use of some of the very wide urban main roads around here (many of which are so large because there was once a very extensive tram network).
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Re: Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) opens

I believe that some of the Tyne and Wear Metro runs on former heavy rail lines.
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Re: Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) opens

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I believe that some of the Tyne and Wear Metro runs on former heavy rail lines.
It does, although the Tyne & Wear Metro looks more like a train than a tram, while the Manchester Metrolink looks more like a tram than a train. There’s also street running in Manchester, but AFAIK there isn’t in Tyne & Wear.
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