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Colin Rosenstiel

December 8th 05 12:03 AM

Met line - Watford - Saturday?

In article ,
lid (asdf) wrote:

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:28 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

Blocking the W10 gauge container train route from Felixstowe
to the West Midlands will case massive diversion to road
onto the trunk road which already has one of the highest
proportions of lorries on one of the busiest roads in the
country.

It says "removal of 9'6" freight from the NLL *by upgrading
alternate routes*".

But are there alternative routes to the WCML that entirely avoid
the NLL?

What happened to that idea floating around a while back about
building a "freight focused route" across London, via the GOBLIN?
Has it completely disappeared?

Doesn't that still need the NLL to link to the WCML?

IIRC it would have featured a tunnel from the western end of the
GOBLIN to somewhere like Primrose Hill, thus avoiding the NLL.

Good grief! How much would that have cost?

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Colin Rosenstiel

Tom Anderson

December 8th 05 01:33 AM

Met line - Watford - Saturday?

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

Blocking the W10 gauge container train route from Felixstowe to the
West Midlands will case massive diversion to road onto the trunk
road which already has one of the highest proportions of lorries on
one of the busiest roads in the country.

It says "removal of 9'6" freight from the NLL *by upgrading alternate
routes*".

But are there alternative routes to the WCML that entirely avoid the
NLL?

Hmm, I see what you mean. How about Felixtowe-Bury St
Edmunds-Ely-Peterborough-Leicester-Nuneaton?

Ho, ho!

Er, haven't the powers that be, or variously were, been seriously
considering exactly this - 'Felixstowe to Nuneaton', or F2N - for many
years now? The route needs work, but it's not completely ludicrous.

Did anyone ever figure out why four-tracking the NLL wasn't an option?

tom

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