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This will be great news if it happens but an obvious question - why will it cost such a phenomenal amount of money???
A while ago ATOC published a request for comments on reopening certain closed stations on main and secondary lines. One was Clay Cross in Derbyshire. The proposed site was south rather than north of the original junction but at least this meant it would only be a simple two platform affair. The estimated cost? £3million.
The Victorians got a gang of men to build a real station, rather than a modern bus shelter affair, for a tiny fraction of that sort of money in real terms. Now we don't seem able to do anything without a vast team of people in offices doing studies and loads of managers in yellow jackets standing around on site checking that thousands of directives are being adhered to.
I won't go ranting on for ever but can anyone see a way out of this wasteland of expense so that we can do things safely, cheaply and quickly again?
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