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Ipswich Chord rail link opens for Felixstowe freight
A new £59m railway giving the Port of Felixstowe a direct link to the Midlands is opening to freight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-26790530 Until now freight trains have had to travel in to Ipswich and then out again, adding a hour to journeys.
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Anybody got any figures ? TIA, BW |
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Just had a Google, a BBC report of 27/6/11 states that the average cost of a motorway is £30m per mile; but the M74 extension in Glasgow cost £138m per mile and this is not the most expensive. Bridges and tunnels jack the costs up considerably.
I recall our teacher asking us, in the early 1950’s to state what were the advantages of railways compared to roads. Someone said railways would be cheaper to build, I thought he had a point, after all you only needed to drop a couple of rails down. The teacher didn’t agree. Some years ago I was talking to a mechanic for a road haulage company that had a large fleet of container lorries travelling from the Midlands to Felixstowe daily, more or less nonstop, they were covering over 150,000 miles a year per vehicle. If they are still going, perhaps these will now go by rail. |
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How can this amount of money be justified when Network Rail have been complaining about having to spend around £5m on the Dawlish repair? They say they cannot afford the cash needed for the second line through Devon at £400m although it is needed to allow full weatherproof (e.g. "Global warming") access to Devon and Cornwall.
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