The Campaign to Re-Open The Ivanhoe Line

[boots60]

4 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Just been reading that the great central railway are about ready to link up the Leicester and Nottingham sections (I didn't know Nottingham had a working section tbh) 

 

Point being, how on earth can a few fuddy duddy railway enthusiasts build and maintain a 30 odd mile line yet with nothing but charity donations yet Network Rail reckons it'd cost £272m quid upgrading an existing line from Coalville to Leicester? 

 

Edit 5m quid it cost them, raised through donations. What a mess this country is in, being quoted 272m FFS

Because Fuddy Duddy's come from an era where things got done.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

21 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Just been reading that the great central railway are about ready to link up the Leicester and Nottingham sections (I didn't know Nottingham had a working section tbh) 

 

Point being, how on earth can a few fuddy duddy railway enthusiasts build and maintain a 30 odd mile line yet with nothing but charity donations yet Network Rail reckons it'd cost £272m quid upgrading an existing line from Coalville to Leicester? 

 

Edit 5m quid it cost them, raised through donations. What a mess this country is in, being quoted 272m FFS

Surely the national railway network has a lot more sophisticated signalling requirements than a heritage/hobbyist line, and that would be where the extra comes from.

[MPH]

2 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Surely the national railway network has a lot more sophisticated signalling requirements than a heritage/hobbyist line, and that would be where the extra comes from.

 

 

267m for some red and green lightbulbs! heads gone!

[Paninistickers]

2 minutes ago, Mike the Metal Ed said:

Surely the national railway network has a lot more sophisticated signalling requirements than a heritage/hobbyist line, and that would be where the extra comes from.

Agreed. But you get my point. Nothing gets done at public sector level without over expense and faff. 

 

There's gotta be a middle way, surely?

[MPH]

J

[MPH]

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