ISN'T it amazing how much of a problem reinstating the railway via Okehampton and Tavistock would be? Someone in these columns described it as 'an immense challenge'. I find it hard to believe that engineers in 2014 would find replacing 19-miles of railway on an existing trackbed as a challenge at all. The Victorians with navvies and steam excavators built the line from scratch! Are we really that incapable of doing this? No of course not. In reality, the immense challenge is overcoming political prejudice and 'an immense bias' towards the south east of England with regard to investing in transport, or anything else for that matter. I recently watched a programme that gave an insight into building crossrail in London. Now that is an immense challenge but they are overcoming it with great skill and £15-billion worth of money courtesy of the British (not London) public. Rebuilding 19-miles of railway in rural Devon isn't really a challenge — it's pursuading an ambivalent government 250-miles away that we count just as much — now that is an immense challenge we are unlikely to ever overcome. Tamar Valley resident