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Why Build On Old Railway Lines

Watching a recent Vlog on Y-tube regarding a local railway line lost in my locality many years ago, it connected my home town to Newport, I put the Blogger right about a side line which simply went to carriage sheds.

Emotions took over when I sat down and realised my home town of Caerphilly has at least doubled in size since that railway line closed, prodictions from Caerphilly Council suggest Caerphilly will again double in size over the next ten years, so I ask the question why have we built on old railway lines, surely planners should of taken expansion into consideration.
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hunkalove · 70-79, M
My small hometown has a McDonalds where the train tracks used to be.
senghenydd · M
@hunkalove Doesn't look like that railway line will be brought back.

There's traffic jams where I live around the rush-hour periods every day it gets worse every year.