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« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2025, 10:18:14 »
The GCRE's own website (apologies if it's already been posted and I've missed it):
https://www.gcre.wales/

Subheading is "The UK▸ (United Kingdom)’s first net zero railway".
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« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2025, 12:42:53 »
Quote from: stuving on June 26, 2025, 10:05:30
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That could easily take four years to get nowhere, couldn't it? Just ask Go-Op how!

Or HS2▸ (The next High Speed line(s)), who can do it for far longer than four years, and at many multiples of the cost
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