edwin_m
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Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-progress-and-updates-not-speculation.99892
Perhaps there's an opportunity here to tell freight operators they can only use EWR with electric haulage. Making that condition appears to be impossible on existing lines (through I'm not sure if anyone has tried for, say, Shap and Beattock), but perhaps the right to exploit new opportunities could have some responsibilities attached.
They'd have to electrify EWR to do that of course. But if they don't I rather doubt how well diesel freight would keep up on a railway where the passenger trains do 100mph and don't stop that often, and the loops have been value engineered out.
Perhaps there's an opportunity here to tell freight operators they can only use EWR with electric haulage. Making that condition appears to be impossible on existing lines (through I'm not sure if anyone has tried for, say, Shap and Beattock), but perhaps the right to exploit new opportunities could have some responsibilities attached.
They'd have to electrify EWR to do that of course. But if they don't I rather doubt how well diesel freight would keep up on a railway where the passenger trains do 100mph and don't stop that often, and the loops have been value engineered out.
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