We’ve said it before. They’re looking at it through the wrong end of the telescope. We can’t help feeling that unionists down south are missing a huge opportunity for political point scoring and increasing the union dividend immeasurably by not starting HST2 from this end and working south. The project could adopt the Waverley line, now stuck with contractual difficulties in that no-one is quite sure how the Scottish Futures Trust not-for-profit alternative to PFI actually will work. Trains need only stop at the new Tweedbank station before heading south-west to Carlisle, opening up the largest swathe of countryside in Europe not served by a railway to freight and passengers. |
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