Rural group accuses rail company of committing 'crime against the countryside'

Warning new train route will devastate farmland and wildlife

Jane Thynne
Head of News and Business
clock • 2 min read
The proposed route would cut through 400 acres of regeneratively farmed arable land
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The proposed route would cut through 400 acres of regeneratively farmed arable land

A rural group has accused a railway company of committing a ‘crime against the countryside' over plans to build a train line across nature-rich farmland in Cambridgeshire. The Countryside Regeneration...

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