In any case what's wrong with posting a couple of people with red flags to stop traffic. Or is this reckoned to be a dangerous thing to do in these days of health & safety dominance over common sense?

Wouldn't it be nice Bojo's government electrified Didcot-Oxford-Bletchley for the WCML^▸ (West Coast Main Line). A lot of benefit could accrue from this one scheme

I was always lead to believe the Calne branch was the prime loss maker of all Western branch lines.

Has anyone else heard or read this?

Seemingly endless health & safety announcements on GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) stations

I seem to recall Gerry Feinnes was instrumental not only in saving Salisbury-Exeter but also the Berks & Hants as a through route. Without him all would go through Bath. Imagine that in 2019! But I suppose had things been left entirely to Beeching everything west of Exeter would have closed too.

The Severn Beach line isn't half bad either. The line out of central Bristol leads eventually to the suburbs before seeing the river Avon open out into the Bristol Channel. There are the industrial areas around Avonmouth before the long flat run to lonely Severn Beach itself. I remember when the line went on to Pilning too..

How many regions will XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) run through?

Most station announcements seem to be concerned with Health & Safety these days. I wonder just who listens to these?

Call for evidence: go to any decent sized European town and see what a huge difference light rail makes in just about every way.

Job done..

This is all nonsense. I very much doubt, given their record, if Tory government is never going to implement a programme of re-openings. More likely the story is a cover for impending bad news..

Of course it could share, as a single track line, with bikes, just as happens around Bitton with the tourist steam line. I'm not sure what percentage of cycles on the route might be considered commuter traffic, and how much classed as leisure. Families out for a bit of exercise, that sort of thing. I doubt if anyone will ever do a survey, so we'll never know

Re-open the line from Bristol up to Mangotsfield. Just imagine how many car journeys this might save.

Yellow warning panels? I hope not..

Dr Beeching

Every time I see the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) catenary I am surprised how much more heavy duty is seems from other electrified main lines. Is part of the project's problem that it is over-engineered?