"Sorry to the inhabitants of the proposed Stevenson Avenue, your road has been cancelled due to leaves on the plot, a member of staff will guide you to our tent replacement service."
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Leaves on the line are actually a surprisingly nasty issue since they screw up adhesion. There was a nasty crash last year because of it that cut off a good chunk of Wales from the rest of the network.
Oh I don't doubt it. Doesn't stop it being a cliché though :P
I can see this ending with replacement mobile homes.
Strange (or maybe not, I imagine there's a lot of overlap with the work they do and constructing homes).
I won't complain about more houses being built.
The Japanese rail companies use this model, building housing, retail and hotels near their lines to increase ridership.
Hell half of London was built this way.
And most of the u.s.
Also built in anti-NIMBY defences. Easy transport for the raw materials too, the more I think about it the more wins there are.
The houses will be in insufficient quantity and in poor location to make rail transport of materials viable. The houses are going where the goods sidings used to be.
"I'm afraid that you will not be allowed back into your home today. The Met Office [or whatever it's called] has said that the weather pattern is for snow. Unfortunately, it's the wrong type for your locale. Please make alternative living arrangements until further notice."
Why not? They've failed miserably at delivering cost effective rail transport - it's cheaper to fly from your local airport on Ryanair to Spain and back to the local nearest destination airport - they might as well have a go at fucking up housing.
Guessing that the 'houses' are actually train carriages that have been continually stuck in sidings since time immemorial.
But network rail don't run any trains
Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.
Oh! You and your 'facts' are soooo out-dated. We don't do that anymore. This is my truth.
Do we all have to stand up in them?
Both Network Rail and LCR have already been working in this space for a long time; this is more about increasing the scale than about doing something new.
Reading is an interesting example; all those big towers and blocks that have sprung up around the station in the last decade? The vast majority are on what was previously railway land.