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Old December 26th 07, 12:22 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail link to Reading hangs in the balance

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04:58:25 on Wed, 26 Dec 2007, D7666 remarked:
Isn't that the regime that all railway building projects operate under,
anyway? The SPILL box


The box was guaranteed.

The station was the bit that was funded later.


Exactly my point. They got the go-ahead to built the box on the
assumption that they'd be able to get funding for the fitout later.
Which in this case it did - but it's not always the case.
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