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Roland Perry · April 24th 17, 06:40 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 20:23:10
on Sun, 23 Apr 2017, remarked:

I can't see any other good reason for a perfectly servicable railway to
be ripped up and replaced with an inferior alternative.

It wasn't serviceable, and all the stations were gone.

No they weren't. Indeed some of the buildings and platforms are still there.

Stations require more than "a building" that someone is living in. Apart
from Histon, which was in such a poor state a rebuild would be required
anyway, what other platforms existed, and how many would take the trains
you envisage running (I note that CastIron were proposing DMUs, so might
have got away with platforms for only two carriages).
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Roland Perry