2.3 miles the route was
planned to stretch out
all across the centre of Town
Doctor Hodge said. 

2.3 miles in short cropped mounds
30 feet below the surface
from Topshop to all over the library
threaded with rotting metal 

red dangled in drilled memories
stitched across half built shops

never switched on moving pavements

bolted up ticket offices

improvising in the wind
on an opening tune
never destined to happen

dogged in indecision 
bound with a closed
spiral staircase

bleating in tune
with the rats

and ghosts of train guards
giving the thumbs up
to carry on. 

(According to wikipedia.org, the Picc-Vic_tunnel Project was a proposed, and later cancelled, underground railway designed in the early 1970s with the purpose of connecting two major mainline railway termini in central Manchester, England. It's similaties to the Metrolink which started in 1990 is particularly interesting).