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| Cost of new rail freight links from Felixstowe to Midlands 09/02/2010 at 09:56 #683 | |
Right Away
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New 0.6 mile of track will be built north of Ipswich goods yard to link the East Suffolk and Great Eastern lines and this will cost £35m plus two 775m loops costing £18m will be laid east of Ely station to negotiate trains through the junctions’... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8500308.stm I’m staggered at the cost for these short lengths of new track. Am I missing something or is this an absolute rip-off? Log in to reply |
| Cost of new rail freight links from Felixstowe to Midlands 09/02/2010 at 09:56 #6549 | |
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Right Away
71 posts |
New 0.6 mile of track will be built north of Ipswich goods yard to link the East Suffolk and Great Eastern lines and this will cost £35m plus two 775m loops costing £18m will be laid east of Ely station to negotiate trains through the junctions’... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8500308.stm I’m staggered at the cost for these short lengths of new track. Am I missing something or is this an absolute rip-off? Log in to reply |
| Cost of new rail freight links from Felixstowe to Midlands 09/02/2010 at 11:56 #6554 | |
Gloriousnse
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£35m is not just for 0.6km of track, that would be the easy bit! It's totally new right of way, mostly on a curved viaduct, across land not previously owned by the railway, a junction with a busy double track route both ends so a minimum of 6 points and several signals needing to be installed into two very busy routes... And then, 0.6km of new track. I'm not even convinced of that to be honest, would have expected NR to insist of a minimum of 775m (see Ely loops) of chord to allow for regulating their future standard freight train... Log in to reply |