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Who says that we're getting equivalent value on each different piece of
work? Anecdotally the cost of building railways seems to be going up,

Modern Railways used to use a "Ford Factor" of pi for increases since
privatisation. Some recent issues were using a "carton of milk"
comparison, but I forget the actual numbers.

and that's before you take into account the stupidly over-engineered
stations and so on of the JLE.

Why are you assuming they are over-engineered? They're mostly built in
very different ground to the Blue Clay. I remember reading at the time
that the "big box" design used at some stations was actually the
cheapest way to build them.

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