Now it is HS3!!!

[Suff]

Ah well here the LGV extension to Limoges created Non A La LGV demonstrations all over the place and farmers blocking the roads...

That one has been shelved for now because Hollande gets quite a lot of support around here....

[cromwell]

It wasn't really a consultation, more of a stab at PR. Which failed miserably. The village would now lie in a "V" formed by the spur line to the rolling stock depot and the HS2 line, and people really ain't happy.

Yes WM, I went to school in Normanton and the sidings were massive, even then.

I suppose if we are going to talk about failures on the railway we'd have to go back to the Beeching report and see how many lines got the chop then that would be useful now.

[Workingman]

Cromwell, you know this, but others will not.

That strip from S.E. Leeds - Rothwell, Woodlesford - Down past Stanley and to the East of Wakefield is riddled with old railways to the pit heads. The lines are still there in many cases, as are the beds. They go to places with hardly any population to speak of. The land is no good for farming and is too polluted for housing so it is scrap land. Any of them could be used for parking trains.

So it makes great sense to bloody well did up all that decent farmland near Crofton, whilst at the same time hemming it in from three sides. No wonder people are angry.