In message , at 11:20:23 on Tue, 6
Dec 2016, Robin9 remarked:
We have some Cambridge residents here plus numerous
railway enthusiasts. As part of a speech about returning
responsibility for track maintenance and improvement to
train operators . . .
http://tinyurl.com/zmf6q3d

. . . a suggestion was made that the line between Bedford
and Cambridge might also be rebuilt. I've been told that part
of the right-of-way was lost decades ago when new buildings
were constructed across the trackbed.

Is this feasible? Does the Minister know something nobody
else knows?


The current plan is to ignore the old Bedford-Cambridge route entirely.

In fact, the "rebuilt" line won't even reach Bedford, merely a "Parkway"
station some way to the south of the town.

From there it will supposedly blaze a new trail pretty much due east as
far as Shepreth (and avoiding all habitation especially Sandy) where
it'll join with the existing Hitchin-Cambridge line, for services onward
on the Eastern Section (ie Cambridge-Ely-Norwich, again existing
tracks).
--
Roland Perry