charles wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
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It's quite telling that when rolling stock needs to be moved around for
maintenance work or refurbishment, they often find it cheaper to move it
by road rather than rail.


which shows that someone has got the costing of road transport wrong.
After all, that too is "subsidised by the taxayer".

Drivel. Motorists pay more taxation on vehicle use than the cost of
building and maintaining the roads.

I once got stuck behind a very large vehicle which was carrying a Eurostar
loco to Derby BREL - by road!

As Steve said, it's cheaper to move freight by road.