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26th January 2009, 17:23
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Tracks cleared for East-West Rail (BBC News)
A disused railway is being cleared so that engineers and surveyors can begin design work on the East West Rail.
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26th January 2009, 22:05
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Its an interesting idea and for an East west route & no doubt be useful. My own opinion though with this plan is that once it gets to Milton Keynes it lacks ambition. They are doing their best to do it on the cheap but even then it will need about ten miles of new track near Sandy.
Better a far more strategic approach with an East west route from MK that goes via Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable (no current station), Luton Airport (no current station), Stevenage, Stansted airport and thence to Cambridge. That would also have the additional major advantage of a excellent East-West route close to and around the top of London that joins all the main North-South strategic routes. The only hope of this ever happening is when they eventually extend the A120 westwards towards MK & Oxford as was originally intended. Then a combined rail and Road route would probably have many construction savings.
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