On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:27:54 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

and the inevitable eventual
conversion (in places, reversion!) to heavy rail is going to be
apocalyptic.

Why convert to heavy rail? You can build a light rail system for long
trains and high capacity - look at many of the German U-Bahnen
(specifically Hamburg, which is a superb system) for an example.

Neil

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