On Feb 28, 12:56 am, Graeme Wall wrote:
In message .com
"Adrian" wrote:

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Much of the freight traffic on the North London Line does not even need to
be in London. I am convinced that the UK needs a freight arc from
Felixstowe to Southampton. This could be constructed using, in part, the
track beds of the DN&S and LNWR Oxford to Cambridge routes.

What would be the logic of a freight connection between Southampton and
Felixstowe? I would have thought that there would be little or no traffic
actually between those points. Both are major container ports with traffic
to and from the major manufacturing centres of Britain. Those connections
could certainly do with upgrading. The two ports are too close together by
sea for there to be any advantage in unloading containers at one port,
railing them across country and reembarking them at the other.

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Graeme Wall
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There would be zero containers, one would guess, running between the
two ports. However, this arc would cross every main line running west
and north from London and therefore allow container, and other
freight, trains to access the network without entering the
conurbation.

Adrian.