At last there is talk of restoring at least part of the essential Okehampton to Bere Alston line. This was always a mad closure - cutting off a large town like Tavistock from the outside world yet keeping the station at the village of Bere Alston just a few miles away. And even back in 1968 there were issues with the sea wall and erosion at Dawlish, well before Climate Change became an issue.
Really this is stupid - of course this route should be restored and as quickly as possible for three reasons - towns the size of Tavistock can't survive without a rail connection after Peak Oil hits, the existing route along the sea wall at Dawlish is in real danger of vanishing beneath the waves and the expected increase in rail traffic EVEN WITHOUT PEAK OIL will soon require a second route between Exeter and Plynmouth in any case!
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