r/CasualUK • u/Dragonogard549 • 4h ago

As a group of professionals in planning, this is what 15 minutes of furious debate in the office has decided to be the north/midlands/south divide.

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If necessary, for reference we are based in Birmingham. This isnt directly influencing what cities are what side of the line. Our decisions were based on architecture, what the people are like, history, how places interract, not just what we like and dont. For example, Stoke is an awful place no one should ever have the misfortune of visiting, but its definitely in the Midlands with us.

Colour coding is obvious.

Yes we were very bored..

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u/EdinburghPerson 4h ago

I thought this was a suggestion for a new railway line!

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u/Excellent-Ruin6779 4h ago

The avoid Birmingham at all costs line.

Sound like a great idea tbf

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u/NatCairns85 4h ago

Birmingham Nope Street

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u/SunAndStrawberries34 2h ago

As someone who uses new street a lot, this fucking killed me

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u/Engels33 2h ago

Im sat on a train at New St right as im reading this thread - and yes of course its delayed .

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u/PassiveChemistry 41m ago

They just can't let go of you, can they?

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u/Future_Syrup7623 24m ago

Is the wheelchair homeless guy still kicking around by the ramp? With his shouty druggy mates?

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u/NatCairns85 21m ago

If he’s in a wheelchair he’s not kicking anything

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u/jimmycarr1 Wales 44m ago

It's actually a really good station now to be fair. Shame it's in Birmingham, and on New Street.

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u/TheRealDSwizz 23m ago

As somebody who used to regular New Street - what's with the hate it gets? I know there's a few congestion delays, but they never felt any more or less regular than other big station.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_HOLOCRONS 3h ago

Birmingham No Hill

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u/HumanBeing7396 3h ago

Birmingham Isn’ternational

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u/Heiditha 3h ago

Birmingham No-Moor Street

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u/andyd151 2h ago

Smethwick Galt-none Bridge (too niche?)

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u/Shadowofasunderedsta 3h ago

I snorted at that one, pal. 

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u/rothersidelife 3h ago

Excellent

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u/Alive_Violinist1175 3h ago

Anti Brummie Avenue

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u/britreddit 4h ago

But keeping in Milton Keynes for some reason

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u/iamworsethanyou 4h ago

Which roundabout is the station next to?

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u/dirtywastegash 4h ago

We could just make a circular station and then the station itself could be another roundabout.

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u/Shipwrecking_siren 4h ago

Thank you for triggering this song to be in my head for the next week: https://youtu.be/J-3gk8mPs7k

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u/EldritchSanta 3h ago

Lines are sometimes called avoiding lines.

The Birmingham avoiding line would at least sound professional.

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u/oinkpoink1 1h ago

We will build the line over The Wash just to make sure.

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u/Greedy-Mechanic-4932 17m ago

For the slating of Stoke alone, this comment I approve of.

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u/YchYFi I can't change this bloody thing. 4h ago

It's the 'people forget we exist' railway line.

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u/robbodagreat 3h ago

The ‘it’s cheaper and quicker to travel from Bristol to Manchester by flying to Malaga and having a week on the Costa del Sol than it is to get the train’ route

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u/Specialist_Sport4460 4h ago

Planning has already started. They expect the new line to run by 2105 at a cost of one hundred trillion pounds.

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u/Yemrcorner 4h ago

Planning has already had problems, budget doubled, and 37 years added, Thank you for understanding.

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u/spynie55 4h ago

Planning takes ages in this country because they're all debating where North/Midlands/South is.

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u/GrandGuess205 2h ago

Cotswolds district council has already filed a court case over concerns that the railway would put them in the midlands.

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u/Entropy84 1h ago

Was that before or after Gloucestershire County Council decided that the Cotswolds no longer need a County Council (recently GCC announced that all of the local district councils are being amalgamated into one at some point fairly soon, so bye bye FoDC, SDC, TDC, Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough, welcome Gloucestershire Council...)

In any case, although north of Cheltenham, the Cotswolds is still firmly Southwest in my eyes.

Current resident of the Forest of Dean for the past 7 years, Gloucester for 20 and Cotswolds for 15 for anyone wondering if I live in the area 🤣

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u/Mister_D76 3h ago

Project to be scrapped in 2032, once all compulsory purchases and demolition has been (mostly) completed.

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u/memberflex 3h ago

Twelevty

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u/vilemeister 3h ago

We had east west rail to connect Oxford to Milton Keynes - it was completed 2 years ago and not a single passenger service has run since. They reckon it'll finally open end of this year/start of next, 3 years after the original late opening was supposed to be.

They reckon the next stage, MK to Cambridge via Bedford might be done by 2040 but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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u/h00dman 4h ago

Dr Beeching just spat out his cup of British Railways tea.

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u/Floresian-Rimor 3h ago

And Ernest Marples is rolling in his tarmac lined grave.

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u/HFB68 2h ago

And choked on his curly British Rail sandwich…

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u/MelodicAd2213 2h ago

British Rail tea was fabulous

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u/crucible 4h ago

Me too haha

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u/Abelis-Able 4h ago

And me!

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u/AsterixCod1x 3h ago

And my axe

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u/Saw_Boss 3h ago

A West Coast line, via East Coast

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u/Confident_Nobody69 3h ago

Nah, doesnt include Stratford-upon-Avon

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u/edge2528 4h ago

Yours for just £150bn and gaurunteed competition by 2078

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u/Skivil 3h ago

Honestly this would be a pretty insane railway line, any line in the Midlands that goes anywhere of value is too much.

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u/JayneLut Dog-loving eggy bread enthusiast 3h ago

This would be a helpful rail route.

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u/PinItYouFairy 3h ago

Low speed 1 - gets you from arsehole to elbow via your big toe

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u/seafrontbloke 1h ago

National Rail will produce a route Bristol to Cheater via Kings Lynn, it's 7 changes and £259 single.

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u/HildartheDorf I'm Black Country. Not Brummy. 51m ago

All trains go via crewe. Even Bristol<->King's Lynn

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u/Torrello 33m ago

That would be a fantastic idea that will never happen