re: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
It is my belief that it is far better to reinstate the railway and make the Wensleydale Railway as a through-route for passenger and freight potential.
A cycleway-walkway could go alongside with suitable fencing surely? It does not have to go on the trackbed itself?
The view that a walkway-cycleway will protect the route is a falsity in my experience as numerous examples like Bedford-Sandy, Northampton-MH and elsewhere like Monsal Trail, the users turn and become objectors to rail reinstatements? Please wade in as individuals and encourage others likewise if you agree with the above.
Maybe in an ideal world, Northallerton-Garsdale could inform through passenger and freight by rail, linking ECML and WCML on a North Westerly to South Easterly and vice versa axis. That may inform more capacity for more by rail, which would be gain. Could whoever does it, sell paths or auction paths for customers to buy into the scheme? GBR without capability or ambition but laying waste these rare rail examples, is a blunt instrument unless it is pushed by government of any tier?
It is interesting to note the Settle-Carlisle including Garsdale, was threatened with closure and now is being used heavily by passenger and freight because of its through potential and makes one ponder what other closed lines as 'uneconomic' were closed which today would be really useful railways? Maybe an audit should be done matching potential versus practicalities on the ground to ascertain what could reasonably be done.
Meanwhile Colne-Skipton is ready-to-go and yet, the Government seems to be promoting airport expansion (mainly in the South East) without improved and expanded rail infrastructure. That is bad, as more congestion in such wakes is the default outcome and that is dysfunctional and hinders good health and growth at one and the same time, but delays fuel inflation in all our pockets.
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