Thread: Converting Railways To Roads
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Old May 8th 16, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by D A Stocks[_2_] View Post
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In the '60 and '70s some extremists, including
The Economist magazine, suggested that railways were
obsolete and that all the railway lines should be so converted.
This idea was repudiated by most sensible people and some
motoring organisations pointed out that railway routes were
not wide enough to be suitable for main roads.


Here are some examples that I know of:

A22 East Grinstead

The 'conversion' was a fairly major bit of civil engineering for such a
short piece of road, involving digging out two short tunnels along with
major reconstruction of several roads elsewhere in the town.

A283 Steyning Bypass

This required a couple of bridges to be rebuilt, but was otherwise fairly
straightforward.

A61/A617 Chesterfield

This is rather more extensive, and all dual carriageway. Other than a short
tunnel under the town centre nearly all of the route shown is on the
ex-Great Central trackbed.

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DAS
The East Grinstead road I'm familiar with but those two other
examples I'll have to explore. (I go to Chesterfield every now
and then)
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