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[email protected] · February 9th 21, 09:11 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 08:46:23 +0000
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 09/02/2021 08:28, wrote:
Nothing. This new track would be solely for freight and it would mean that
freight trains can run for further without blocking pax trains than they
do now. It doesn't mean they wouldn't have to stop at all. Through cities
they'd still have to share tracks but thats better than the current situation

and certainly better than spending north of 100 billion on a new pax railway
that will probably makde zero difference to freight times.

So the usual half-arsed British answer which achieves none of the
desired objectives and ultimately costs far more than doing the job
properly in the first place.

So you think spending 100B+ on a railway to shave off 30 mins for pax trains
and as yet unknown time (possibly zero) for freight trains is a good use of
taxpayers money do you?

I'll take the half arsed solution that would probably be 1/10th the cost or
less given the **** stew the economy is now in thanks to the covid hysteria.