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[email protected] · April 28th 17, 01:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2017-04-28 09:43:59 +0000, d said:

Even so, I still can't figure out why newcastle was so blessed when
other more deserving cities were not. God knows, Birmingham really needs
a proper underground system. If it was a city anywhere in northern or
eastern europe it would have public transport coming out of its ears.

Yeah, Brum does seem to have been left out, largely I guess because
of the existence of the Cross ****ty and New St tunnel.

Liverpool of course got Merseyrail, which had it been built even 5 years
later I think wouldn't have been a TOC. It's just that at the time BR
was in favour - fast forward a couple of years and it no longer was.

Birmingham's City fathers thought the answer to everything was more motor
cars then. They made a lot of cars in Brum then.

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Colin Rosenstiel