 Kelvin Hopkins MP, together with some hauliers and supermarket groups, has drawn up plans to reopen the former Great Central Main Line as an alternative to HS2.The cost of the Great Central option has been estimated by supporters at £6 billion, compared with £42.6 billion for HS2.A previous attempt to re-open the Great Central as an intermodal freight transport railway under the name Central Railway was made in about 1990.