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I was interested in Mr Cooper's latest comments on rail into road conversion, but if he does not like the example of the Southport relief road because he thinks conditions were so good for conversion, then what about railway conversion in the Welsh mountains where conditions are quite the opposite to Southport?
In South Radnorshire, which is now part of Powys, the Nyth-Tircelyn railway conversion cost £18,900 per mile in March 1969. This is for a 20ft wide road, but in Western Scotland there are many miles of recently built A roads which are only 18ft wide so a 20ft wide road is well worth having.
At the present time about 1 mile of railway is being converted into a road, which will become part of the A745 between Castle Douglas and Dalbeatie. This will cost about £110,000 per mile, which is less than half the cost if there was no railway to convert. A. I. WATKINSON, Harrogate, Yorks,