There is a PM's petition @

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/greatcentralrlwy/

If this is soemthing that you believe in, please sign it.

On 27 Jun, 19:18, 1506 yahoo.com> wrote:

Quote:

¨We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reinstate the
former great central railway main line to london.¨

Maybe they should have given some indication of to London from
*where*.

Quote:

¨Most of the track bed through rural england remains intact although
some ,not all,structures viaducts bridges embankments have been
dismantled ,however,essentially it is intact. Through the cities of
the midlands however the line has been built over.This should not
discourage us though because the route is essentially still there and
can still be traced from aylesbury to leicester ¨

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Stephen
Furley mail.croydon.ac.uk> gently breathed:

If / when the government decides it wants any given route re-opened,
built-over sections cease to be a problem. Either they get compulsorily
purchased and whatever is in the way gets demolished, or whatever is
next door gets done instead and the route takes a fairly minor deviation
(though TBH short of a nuclear power station, I can't think of many
things that couldn't be removed if necessary).

Whether re-opening the Great Central is a good idea or not is still open
to debate (I think it is, but as a way of getting a faster service to
the northern end of the line, hence speeding through mainly unpopulated
"rural england" non-stop is an advantage), but there's no harm in
promoting the idea.

"Stephen Furley" mail.croydon.ac.uk> wrote in message
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On 27 Jun, 19:18, 1506 yahoo.com> wrote:

Stephen Furley wrote:

"John Wright" pegasus.f2s.com> wrote

That's why the uk station with the highest speeds for non-stopping trains
has island platforms, with the through lines on the outside of the layout
(Ebbsfleet International).

Peter

Peter Masson wrote:

It depends a lot on the radius of turn the train has to make to get
around the island platform. Without looking at it I would guess that the
track around Ebbsfleet is a lot more open than it would have been on any
of the old GC stations. An open layout takes a lot more land than a
relatively closed one. It also depends on the speed expectation - speeds
in 1901 were a lot less than today - average speeds on the GC were never
more than about 60mph even in the days of the 9F.

On Jun 28, 8:46 am, Pyromancer beeching.stormshadow.com>
wrote:

On Jun 28, 3:35 am, Kester.E...@gmail.com wrote:

Don't think I've seen the orginal post for this. However the point of
opening the GC would seem to be to eliminate congestion South of Leicester.
North of Leicester there are four tracks continuously all the way to
Rotherham Masbrough and there is not much congestion.

Much of the formation north of Nottingham has disappeared though if it was
really necessary to have a new route the possibility of connecting the
Mansfield-Worksop line to Woodhouse Junction could be feasible.

South of Leicester I have aloways thought that a re-instatement of the
Banbury connection would be very useful - access to Southampton docks etc,
and a good way of avoiding Birmingham. The matter would\ then be of access
to London and presumably it would need to be over the High Wycombe joint
line rather than the Metropolitan, unless another alternative route was
constructed.