Yes, we're opposed to what the government's overall economic strategy is, but it's also a question of what you invest in, how you invest in it, which railways you upgrade, which roads you change, which broadband you bring in, which new industries you support".
Nearby at Leicester North, the southernmost station of the Great Central Railway, you can admire – or even hop aboard – Britain's only mainline steam railway.
"If you were far away from a railway you were economically isolated, so broadband is exceptionally important for Wales," he said.
And to build a railway you need far more land than the line itself will occupy, says Ben Ruse, a spokesman for HS1, also known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Waiting to board the bright red gauge-rack railway, you will get a tantalising view of the fabled "Big Three": the 3,970m Eiger, the 4,107m Mönch and the 4,158m Jungfrau (Ogre, Monk and Virgin).
"But the question my committee wants to ask is - if you have £50bn to spend on the railways, should you be spending it here?" She said the money would be better spent easing congestion on existing routes by introducing longer trains and building longer platforms.
Jeremy Paxman: Specifically on railways, when you look at this latest accident, this tragedy at Potters Bar, when you have a situation where Railtrack are unable to discover who was looking after the bolts which secured the points, don't you think this fragmentation has to come to an end?
A country where service has not been forgotten On the other hand...a sense of public service persists on the French railways which you would be hard pressed to find on the privatised British network.
Call in to the main control room of Egyptian State Railways and you may find the chief operator similarly disengaged, as one panicked signalman did last year when a train stalled on the tracks.
When you enter the railway station you need to hold your card up to the scanner.
This may seem like something foolish to do, but you'll get cheated if you don't consider this; when coming out of a railway station, you'll find many rickshaws, rickshaw drivers telling you where you should go, etc.
