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[email protected] April 27th 17 09:16 PM
Woking to Heathrow
 
In article
-september
..org, (Recliner) wrote:

wrote:

How newcastle got the funding a fully fledged underground metro in
the city centre 80s is anyones guess especially when Brum or
Manchester were far more deserving. An attack of benevolence by the
government at the time perhaps, or maybe Thatcher trying to keep
the north east on side for a short time given the problems with the
miners.

Very little (10%) of the Newcastle Metro is underground. It's much more
of an S-Bahn than a U-Bahn.

True but the Picc-Vic tunnel in Manchester wouldn't have been much longer.
That said, it's unlikely that much of the rest of the Manchester Metrolink
network would have been built if it had been built like the Tyne & Wear
Metro which isn't suitable for street running.

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Colin Rosenstiel


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