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The havering & penny-pinching & endless delays over the Portishead branch are typical of the complete lack of actual forward thinking, here.
It used to be a single-track branch, with passing loops at (some of) the stations & up tp 22 trains per day.
The proposals, now, are for a single track branch & one train an hour …
They will half-build it & they won’t come …..
Alternatively, it will be grossly overloaded from day one, but it will take another 5-10 years to do what should have been done from the start.
Love that Bloomberg isn’t immune from “random photo when reporting on railways” syndrome. At least their photo of a metre gauge train is a Swiss one, but it’s certainly not the current or previous Glacier Express!