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The current line, that passes me, is very heavily used, and getting busier every year. As are the railways in general. But I think it is a pity they can't put another line in next to it, to minimise the damage and chaos.
Someone once told me that before privatisation they could make freight trains travel at night and get better use out of the tracks in the day. But that post p. this no longer applied. Wonder if this is still the case?
Certainly don't think that an infrastructure project like this, that will not even start for several years, is going to help the battered economy.
Of course the line has been out of action today, due to a locomotive derailment just south of here.