Will The High Speed Trains Ever Die?
I am writing this post as I’ve just read this article on Rail News, which is entitled Strategic Railfreight Interchange Debate Ignites.
The plan is to build a rail freight interchange called Rail Central at Blisworth between the West Coast Main Line and the Northampton Loop Line and then run high speed freight trains based on modified HSTs to destinations all over the country.
To say there is opposition to the plan would be a gross understatement and explodes would probably be a better word in the headline rather than ignites.
The plan reminds me of one that used to be used by Royal Mail called Spokes from Speke, that was used to get First Class letters delivered on time. Basically, small aircraft flew the letters, which had been sorted by destination, from all over the country to Speke airport in Liverpool, where they were sorted and then flown to the destination. So a letter from say the Orkneys to Plymouth, would be flown from Kirkwall to Speke, unloaded and then put on the plane to Plymouth.
If I remember, it worked very well.
On this page of the British Library web site, there is an Oral History of the origins of Spokes from Speke.
As it would appear the system has Network Rail’s backing could it be that someone is creating a Spokes from Blisworh for important parcels?
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