In message , at 06:14:20
on Tue, 26 Apr 2011, remarked:

The nature trail isn't a part of the Cambridge-St Ives scheme.

Do you mean that the trackbed had never acquired the status of a nature
trail, so apart from cyclists there's no-one that worried about it
potentially disappearing?

I took some photos of the Nottingham nature trail yesterday, not very
inspiring towards the south end. Who would believe this is the old Great
Central railway? http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51704614

That picture taken just a few yards north of the proposed Ruddington
Lane tram stop. It'll be fascinating to come back and see this in a few
years: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/net...ndler.ashx?id=
15768&p=0

It seems they've safeguarded a bridge under the A52, but Ruddington Lane
has been built on top of the embankment and will need a new bridge - but
they need new bridges over Wilford Lane and Midland Station as well.

The track was double until after passenger closure so restoring track
to the platforms could be easily incorporated in any track relaying.

Did any of the stations other than Histon have platforms left? And this
idea about relaying the track runs against assertions that a service
could be restored easily as long as the old track hadn't been "ripped
up". In reality, the old track would have been ripped up (and replaced,
even if with some of the old rails) for a railway restoration project.
--
Roland Perry