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"This is welcome but I hope they will reveal the fine detail of which particular railways they have in mind. Ideally a few for each region with devolved areas having their own lists and budgets. England is lagging behind and there should be start up incentive grants to Local Authorities to incentivise them to be galvanised in the national interest. So much talk about money, so much swank about the modern railway with it's nose coned train fronts and sardine can ride experience being lauded as 'success'. We do need to re-rail Britain - conventional not #HS2 and #EastWestRail needs to have curves or redesign to ensure Bedford and East Bedfordshire have physical rail links onto the East-West physical rail and are not bypassed for Wixams or expediency on end to end fast transits for example. Personally I'd like to see Bedford-Northampton - Northampton has tripled since the early 1960's cuts and has a raw deal in network diversity terms. Others include Great Central south of Leicester-Nuneaton to Calvert linking with existing lines and #EastWestRail and Calvert-Grendon for access from Leicester to Old Oak Common/OCC for Crossrail linkage and a new line from OCC-Heathrow direct -the Woking-Guildford lines and Guildford-Shoreham informing a Leicester-Brighton 'not via London' option. London the Dudding Hill Lines could inform a Luton Airport Parkway (build a bay)-Reading 'South Chilterns Link' or Windsor and Eton (tourism). Likewise Cambridge-Haverhill and maybe even Colchester would help with #EastWestRail for more capacity if we're to have Felixstowe-West Midlands freight 'not via London' saving milage and time making rail transit more tempting contrast #A14 haulage. As more freight and logistics gets pumped into East Anglia, the March-Spalding and whole of East Lincs including Mablethorpe need regeneration and re-railing would certainly help them, Peak Rail and Woodhead for East Midlands-Manchester and North West and Hull-Liverpool land bridge connectives - Europe to the rest of the world - we need to re-rail our ports including Plymouth. No dreams if it were roads, it would be assumed as 'must have' and I declare to Lincolnshire Councils and any associated LEP type set ups "Go back to your constituencies, get organised, make a case, protect a corridor and prepare for shoe-horning railway reopening." Members of the public can join ERTA and volunteer to help us with our work like becoming an area rep and recruiting more members and support please: https://ertarail.com/membership/"
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