Scottish Borders Railway - rebuilt Waverley Route link to Edinburgh

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Re: Scottish Borders Railway - rebuilt Waverley Route link to Edinburgh

« Reply #120 on: March 04, 2018, 21:18:44 »

Quote from: trainbuff on March 03, 2018, 21:49:34

Yes.

Jacobs did a report into the Northern Route (Plymouth to Exeter via Okehampton) for Devon County which was overly pessimistic. Especially compared to the Greengauge 21 report for the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England. You would have thought they were talking about a totally different railway!!!

They are overly cautious

Which could explain why they got the gig.


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