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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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zonavar68 · 56-60, M
Depends on future plans. Lots of railway lines go away and few come back.
senghenydd · M
@zonavar68 Hardly any railway lines ever return, I live in a fairly densely populated area, the road which connects Caerphilly to Newport the A468 is a bit of a joke, this is supposed to be a first class road heavy traffic passes through the villages of Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen reducing the speed to 20 MPH, there's miles of this road in open country which has a high bank on one side with heavy rain makes the road flood, there's little investment on new roads and poor planning in the area.