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Old December 19th 15, 07:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london,cam.transport
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On 19/12/2015 20:22, Roland Perry wrote:

British Rail (the nationalised outfit which people still insist could
have done no wrong) in the 70's/80's simplifying lots of junctions to
have fewer moving parts, on the grounds that rail transport was in
managed decline.

At the time there was probably only 1tph in either the Kings Lynn or
Norwich directions.


So the land is still there?

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In message , at 20:48:28 on Sat, 19
Dec 2015, Tim Ward remarked:

British Rail (the nationalised outfit which people still insist could
have done no wrong) in the 70's/80's simplifying lots of junctions to
have fewer moving parts, on the grounds that rail transport was in
managed decline.

At the time there was probably only 1tph in either the Kings Lynn or
Norwich directions.


So the land is still there?


I'm sure it is, and they have plans to use it. But the project is
slipping.

As someone said in another newsgroup earlier today:

That old joke about "good, quick, cheap, pick any two" is, in
the case of Network Rail, "forget it, you won't get any of
them".
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On 19/12/2015 21:11, Roland Perry wrote:

That old joke about "good, quick, cheap, pick any two"


(Changing the subject.)

Just very occasionally someone gets hold of some cash and calls your
bluff, and says "OK, money's no object, now give me the moon on a stick
by tomorrow lunchtime".

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