The Bacon Factory Curve Opens
The BBC are reporting that the Bacon Factory Curve or the Ipswich Chord to give it its official name, is now open. Here’s the summary.
A new £59m railway giving the Port of Felixstowe a direct link to the Midlands is opening to freight.
Until now freight trains have had to travel in to Ipswich and then out again, adding a hour to journeys.
Hopefully, this small piece of track will improve timekeeping of trains that pass through or by the junction.
As I first posted about this curve in February 2013, construction has been pretty fast.
Have the government and Network Rail decided that lots of small projects can improve the efficiency of the railway significantly?
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] seen is a host of smaller projects, that remove bottlenecks, like the Hitchin Flyover, the Bacon Factory Curve and the Todmorden Curve, to name just three of several. I suspect various rail companies have been […]
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