Forget the Varsity Line until ...

 Thanks, Bill for this.  Good to hear from you.

Forget the Varsity Line until these have been done!

1. Top priority should be to stop destroying the remnant of urban and railway lines that could be used for passenger/freight trains or as cycle-walkways.  Don't use them for high impact, hyper-expensive, self-aggrandisement, "bus on rails" trams.
2. Finish the already partly rebuilt, half used, half wasted 120 Kms Black Country Railway for commuter/regional TRAINS on the full length.
3. Next, modernise our "very Victorian railway" - Sir David Higgins when CEO of Network Rail in his 'Today' interview on 8 January 2013.
4. Start the update, renovation, refurbishment with the trains in northern England.
5. Do the projects in the Taxpayers' Alliance document.  Varsity Line does not appear!​
    TPA Gt British Transport Competition p 16
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Tim