Halt the new high-speed railway link and spend the money on building coastal and river defence systems to avoid such flood disasters occurring again.

The reduction in congestion would benefit those who wanted to continue driving to their nearest railway link.

The architects also believe they have identified a way of raising about 30 billion without government money, more than enough for the new airport and a basic railway link.

With the growing coal industry came the need for a railway link.

This ended after the railway link was completed in 1875.