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I am a very impatient person and as all feedback on this project appears to have dried up I decided to carry out my own feasibility study.
Yesterday my wife and I walked the route of the proposed line from Macclesfield to Rose Hill Marple and as a result of this I have a number of questions that I would like to put to Mr.Bazley and Lord Millet.
1) Where do you propose siting the station at the Macclesfield end of the line? I assume that the original trackbed was covered by the A523 road making an alternative alignment extremely expensive.
2) At Bollington an industrial estate now covers the original trackbed. How do you intend coping with this obstacle as the terrain doesn’t make the present alternative route wide enough for a combined railway and bridleway?
3) The tunnel beneath the A6 north of Middlewood is far too narrow for both a railway and a bridleway. Do you have any plans to deal with this bottleneck?
4) For much of its length the original trackbed is very wet with countless numbers of small ponds. Although the abundance of marsh plants add to the scenic beauty of the route it is going to be very expensive to reinstate suitable drainage before the railway can be restored. Have you budgeted for this?
5) What plans do you have for a station at the Rose Hill end of the line?
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