On Tue, 10 May 2005, Tim wrote:

So instead of much needed investment, we get a quick cash-grab, and
rather than providing us with an integrated transport policy the govt.
gets to raise a few hundred million that it can put towards something
really useful, like ID cards for everyone.

Oh GOOD GOD that is sickening! It's not often you get to combine passing
up an opportunity to dramatically improve a great swathe of rail services
with the probable destruction of a beautiful landmark building!

It's almost enough to make me write to my MP. Maybe we could get the
Grimshaw station building listed? That might scupper the *******s.

One question, though; SWT says "the quarter-mile-long platforms would
allow it to add carriages to its services to Portsmouth, Bournemouth,
Southampton, Weymouth and Winchester.". Do the stations on those lines
(the ones that would be served by these services, anyway) have
sufficiently long platforms themselves?

tom

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