In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
Ha ha v. funny. Road freight is at least 80% of the total. Our rail
network strains to take the other 20%. To make much difference you'd
have to make that 60/40, that is at least a doubling of the amount
of freight on the railway. Could you kindly indicate which lines
you think it's gonna be on? Why do you think I was suggesting going
to four tracks as much as possible? That way the slow freight
could mix with the slow local trains.

Freight often runs overnight. As you'd see if you catch any late
trains round London. And that could likely be increased.

20% may not sound like much, but putting that 20% on the roads would
cause chaos.

That 20% is already on the roads.

Could you explain the maths to me?

But if most freight already runs
overnight, there's a lot to be said for adding the extra tracks so more
of it can runs daytime too.

Adding track is pretty expensive. If not it would already have been done
to reduce passenger overcrowding. But I don't think overnight freight
capacity is anywhere near maximum.

Course, a lot of e.g. Tesco big trucks are going to be refrigerated ...

No reason why rail freight can't be refrigerated.

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