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On 15 Dec, 18:42, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
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(lonelytraveller) wrote:
As far as I remember, they wanted to send goods trains via the east
london thames crossing, and a new rail link (or, more accurately, the
resurrection of an old one) going from oxford to cambridge.

Hollow laugh There has never been any central government support for
re-opening Cambridge to Oxford and the consortium of local authorities
has only ever promoted a passenger-only scheme. Not that Cambridge to
Oxford ever had much through freight even before it closed in 1968.

Its a major part of the East-West Rail plan.
http://www.eastwestrail.org.uk/
Its at GRIP stage 2, and currently has governmental support.
And it includes freight.

The current plan only includes _track_ as far as Bletchley. That allows for
an additional freight route from the WCML at Bletchley towards Oxford,
relieving the Nuneaton - Coventry - Leamington Spa - Banbury section of the
existing route.

Any extension towards Cambridge is on a totally separate timescale, and
practically irrelevant as far as freight on the NLL/GOB is concerned.

Paul