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Title: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: grahame on November 20, 2021, 14:04:10 Ten more opportunities or dreams. Which (up to) FIVE would you select as the ones that should next have regular National Rail services?
Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Lee on November 20, 2021, 14:35:33 Of those on your list, I think that only Fawley and Tavistock have outside chances in the foreseeable future. Fawley because of its appearance as a potential option in the Waterloo FOI material, and Tavistock because a successful Dartmoor Line may provide added impetus.
I would like to say Portishead, but the current mood music doesn't look good to me. The only English reopening that I would consider a dead cert is the Northumberland Line, which isn't on your list. Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Rhydgaled on November 20, 2021, 17:23:27 I picked four, because I want the 5th to be an 'Other', Caernarfon. If I have to limit myself entirely to the list, then I'd add Henbury as the 5th, though Lee has reminded me of the Northumberland Line, which should also be up there.
You did say should didn't you, not what our predictions are... Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: IndustryInsider on November 20, 2021, 18:59:07 Bedford to Cambridge is top of the list for me.
Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Lee on November 20, 2021, 20:17:36 You did say should didn't you, not what our predictions are... In my defence - As a former political advisor, where would I be if I answered the actual question asked? Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: grahame on November 20, 2021, 21:35:02 Ah! The question was like rather than should or will. And I should (!) have made it clear that my examples and the question was within the core area that we cover on the forum - lines that could logically be operated within the Great Western management contract or its successors. So Bedford to Cambridge, and Bangor to Caernarfon are very much in the running, but not in scope of the question. I was humming and ha-ing as to whether to include Fawley, but as one option is Fawley - SOU - ESL - SAL - WSB - SWI I included it.
Agreed that Northumberland is the most likely to actually happen. And how is Fleetwood coming along? Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Surrey 455 on November 20, 2021, 23:54:50 Cowley?
You want to re-open the West Drayton to Uxbridge branch line? ;D Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: ellendune on November 21, 2021, 08:28:49 Cowley? You want to re-open the West Drayton to Uxbridge branch line? ;D We I meant Garsington Bridge Halt Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Clan Line on November 21, 2021, 18:26:09 Waterloo to Temple Meads surely !!!
Title: Re: On the re-start of daily train services to Okehampton ... where next? Post by: Richard Fairhurst on November 22, 2021, 17:53:03 Witney, within GWR territory. (But Leicester-Burton elsewhere, which would surely be an Okehampton shoo-in were it not for the inconvenient wrongly-facing chord in Leicester.)
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