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Article: Five years on and upgrade is no nearer; Transport Correspondent Campbell Docherty looks at the history of Birmingham's New Street Station which carries the unenviable title of the country's worst rail bottleneck.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Campbell Docherty
For many years, transport bosses have been concerned about the dwindling capacity for trains on the West Midlands network.
Not only is local commuter patronage significant and rising, the network represents the crossroads of the UK rail network.
Sir Alistair Morton, former head of the shadow Strategic Rail Authority, said in 2000 that the West Midlands was the worst bottleneck in the country's network.
Hence his willingness to talk about a pounds 1 billion tunnel underneath New Street to take local trains away from the intercity trains ...