(14 Nov 2013, 9:16 am)fozzovmurton wrote Would the track not have needed replacing anyway, due to no use in the best part of 25 years...

Apart from the few miles of track that was stolen from Penshaw, the signalling/cabling would have needed replacing too.

I live in hope that it will be re-opened, but like QCS, I think it is doomed to failure because the powers that be, don't live in the real world.