On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:53:10 +0100
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
Liverpool had the Liverpool Overhead Railway back in the day. Which in the
true British tradition of 20/20 foresight was torn down for as far as I can
discern no particularly good reason other than no one wanted to cough up for
maintenance and repairs.
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.
Merseyrail like the drayton park - moorgate line in london rather eludes
definition. Is it a metro, an S Bahn or just commuter rail that happens to
have some underground stations?
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Spud