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Old March 19th 07, 05:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colin Rosenstiel Colin Rosenstiel is offline
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Default North London Line Revisited

In article .com,
(TimB) wrote:

On Mar 18, 3:27 pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

You going to pay the cost of double tracking from Soham to Ely?


Not me, but it's being seriously suggested that TfL ought to.

Also, some people here seem to be overlooking that some freight
actually originates and terminates in London!


That is steady/declining, while container freight from the ports is
booming, which is the root of this problem.


The containers don't *all* go to the Midlands and "oop North".

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Colin Rosenstiel