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Rail conversionist’s dream has no grounding in reality

Edward Gibbins Alsager ST7
17 August 2012
 

Paul Withrington’s assertion that conversion of 11,000 miles of railway would “bring relief to city, town and village across the land” exposes a poor grasp of geography and mathematics (ibid). He believes that the fence-to-fence width of single line railways can be converted into good wide roads based on a claim that railway routes have been compacted by 3,000-tonne trains needing only a thin skimming of asphalt to carry heavy lorries and buses. It exposes how little he knows...

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