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tail freight gets big cash boost
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The Strategic Rail Authority IA) has published its 10-year ai with a promise of £4.5bn for tomes including a new link im Scotland to London. A "revue support scheme" for rail :ight is designed to encourage mpetition and get more freight the roads, particularly in the ermodal market and for pertain loads. The SRA has mitered its call for an 80% increase freight tonne-kilometres.
The plan also covers more pacity for freight services, ginning with the TransPennine ute and including upgraded ks from Felixstowe and uthampton to the West dlands. the North and Scotland take larger containers. A (h-speed line would move eight between London and linburgh in 3hr 30 min.
Philip Mengel, English Welsh & ;offish Railway (EWS) chief executive, welcomes the plan: "EWS fully endorses the SRA's Strategic Plan. Rail freight has grown by 40% since 1996 and currently saves nine million lorry journeys a year. The SRA needs to ensure that... freight enhancements are urgently progressed to maximise the growth opportunities in the SRA plan."
Sarah Watkins, the ETA's
rail-freight expert, says: "Our main concern now is that the Government must give the SRA the freedom to follow its plan through. There is a strong demand from ETA members to use rail freight but currently the network is not working adequately enough for business to have confidence in it."