"tim....." wrote...
Maybe we could do something similar - fill in the whole Thames
Estuary?
Why, when we have the whole of the Isle Of Grain to build an airport on?
Because the people on the "island|" kicked up a fuss,

There's always Sheppey - fairly flat.
But there's already an airport at Manston, Thanet - just 68 minutes* out of
St. Pancras via class 395s.

They even called it "London Manston" for a while.
I think they stopped when the one passenger airline that flew there went
bust.

*Plus a short bike ride past the potato fields**.
But they could easily build a short rail link to Minster-ish.

**Bicycle not supplied.
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Andrew

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