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BR: Chunnel can't cope
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• Freight movements to the Continent through the Channel Tunnel will be little more than half of planned volumes, predicts a British Rail executive.
BR's concerns centre on dovetailing the tunnel system into the Continental rail network and coping with the differing speeds of various locomotive types. BR estimates that top capacity will be 13 trains per hour — but the Chunnel's capacity is 20 trains.
BR's external manager for the project, Alan Dunlop says the tunnel will be "an operating nightmare", and engineering expert John Ogilvie of Integrated Transport Consultants, which has researched the logis
tics involved, believes the design is "hopelessly inadequate".
"It may turn out to be 14 trains an hour or even 11. But the theoretical capacity is not feasible because of the different speeds." says Dunlop.
Euroturmel denies that slower trains will restrict thoughput and asserts that the project will be able to meet its target.