UK report says “treble freight” to save the railways
Steel and Container trains at Liverpool Docks (Peel Ports)
Post pandemic, the railways in the UK are in crisis, according to a new think-tank report from the Centre for Policy Studies. The authors say it is not just the dramatic and possibly permanent reduction in passenger commuting either. To get the railways back on track, an equally dramatic increase in rail freight is needed, and it is not just the network that will benefit, with climate and congestion issues also addressed.
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However, with ware owners shift of strategy, to “On Demand, now high” quality, the request for On Time deliveries, is more important than ever.
Technicalities adding risks, adds to logistic costs and now decisively have to be outed. (Sudden, unplanned railway stops, no longer is acceptable.)
Robustness, as well, has to be added, at a vulnerable mode, that by nature is short of redundancy. Yes, potential is very big, but For sake of capacity, all bottlenecks of railways now have to be attended!
If the fares were reduced to an affordable amount passengers might return. There are times when we would have liked to go by train on a day out but yhe cost was prohibitive.
Hello William,
For sound and sustainable reduced fares, costs have to be reduced. (All other devices, accordingly, those global by air and by sea, add load capacity with Goal reduced costs. As well the road trucks does.)
For large scale attracting passengers, quality of service rendered has to be equal to that by timely personal devices available, simple as that. Quality pays, regrettably however, currently at railways, too low!
The main problem with Freight as well as freight sharing lines with passengers has nothing to do with HS2 (or HS1), it has to do with too little steel on the ground. Many lines were removed in the 60s, 70s & 80s; some of these need to be re-introduced &/or re-aligned, whilst those that were reduced to single line working need to be re-dualled. About passenger costs, we need to re-introduce cheap day (& half) returns for everybody which can be used across the system not just on one TOC’s trains.