Exciting news from the DfT…
A direct rail link between the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge took a step closer today (14 December 2017), as Transport Secretary Chris Grayling officially launched the East West Railway Company.
The Transport Secretary launched the new company, which will oversee the restoration of the link between the two academic powerhouses, nearly 50 years to the day since the closure of the old Varsity Line at the historic Second World War site of Bletchley Park.
Mr Grayling met with Rob Brighouse, interim chair of the East West Railway Company, regional council leaders and Milton Keynes South MP Iain Stewart for the launch.
He also met with Cyril Bleasdale who worked on the original Varsity Line construction in the 1960s and helped to build the Bletchley Viaduct.
Errr...
Cyril Bleasdale! From when?
The Bletchley Viaduct! Is it still fit for purpose?
What happened to the quote from the increasingly excitable Twitter persona and roving VoxPop that is Lord Andrew Adonis?
Lest it be forgot, Admiral Scrumptious is the Chair of the railfreight hating National Infrastructure Commission.
The NIC has championed the re-opening of the Oxbridge Line from Oxford to Cambridge but also suggested that platooned lorries will sort all your housebuilding, shopping and road-safety needs.
The NIC also includes an NR board member amongst its illuminati.
Eye can only wonder why such seers of the railway age, might have been overlooked.
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