Why Wales Can and Must Be Linked by Rail to Heathrow ; with Concerns Over Global Warming and Car Use High On the Political Agenda It Is Time for a Direct Rail Link to Be Built Between Wales and Heathrow, Argues Tony Lodge of Centre-Right Think-Tank Bow Group: The Thursday Essay

Western Mail › September 17, 2009

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WHEN thoughts turn to the Kings and the Castles locomotives hauling the famous heyday trains from Paddington to Wales and western England in their distinctive coffee and cream liveries, it is easy to grow nostalgic - but these are understandably held up as the truly great days on the railways.

This was a time before cheap internal flights and deep concerns about climate change, but the principles from this pre- nationalisation era of a quality service and engineering supremacy which generated global envy can occur again as Britain looks towards the railways to solve our transport quandary.

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Why Wales Can and Must Be Linked by Rail to Heathrow ; with Concerns Over Global Warming and Car Use High On the Political Agenda It Is Time for a Direct Rail Link to Be Built Between Wales and Heathrow, Argues Tony Lodge of Centre-Right Think-Tank Bow Group: The Thursday Essay

Taking a train may not be much fun over the next decade. Trains are already full and Network Rail has shelved nearly a third of the track renewal projects it had scheduled for next year. Some trains are now carrying 40% more passengers than they should, and year a...

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