UK rail minister commits investment to freight
Rail Partners meeting at the UK Parliament. Centre is the UK Rail Minister Huw Merriman and the CEO of GB Railfreight, John Smith. Image: Rail Partners
Huw Merriman, who holds the rail portfolio in the UK government, has pledged to a number of projects which will directly benefit rail freight operations. Most prominently, he said that the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement would now be affordable. Funds have been reallocated from HS2, the high-speed rail project, which has been significantly curtailed from its original plans. The minister outlined spending plans around the network, although some observers claimed that much of the spending was a reiteration of plans already in place.
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Quantity, funding spent, at railway infrastructure standards, that no longer are optimal, regrettably is “cementing”. (Suboptimally, now “optimal maintenance”, is a costly mantra, etc.)
For proving equal, with other, timely modes, those robust (redundant and resilient), now, decisively, all bottlenecks of railways have to be outed.
The railway, that soundly and sustainably is worth funding, does, safely with margins, not just allow for current load and traffic, but for added load, etc.