Rebuild the Great Central South of Leicester. Coming
off the Leicester-Nuneaton line you serve Lutterworth, link with West Coast
Main Line*:
a. At
Rugby (on-off links) *Do you use the old Midland line from Leicester where the
two lines crossed each other for Rugby ground level access?
b. Loop
to link with the Northampton loop for Rugby/Northampton direct to Leicester
service capability on one core line.
c. Loop
to link Daventry/Southam – shared Park and Ride Station? New town proposed for
Calvert as part of East-West Rail. Links onwards with Chiltern Lines, Old Oak
Common, Heathrow and elsewhere/vice versa.
d. The
fast line via Catesby Tunnel (needs saving from development blockages),
Woodford Halse (deviation needed to avoid housing), Brackley (new rail bypass
needed), Calvert (HS2 needs to ensure it can get in). It may take 10-20 years
to reverse stupid planning encroachments and devastations, but if a large
backer/consortium buys into the idea, studies it and makes the case problems
can be overcome pro-affirmatively.
The Benefits:
a. New
railway using old trackbed in part, creates capacity end to end of Midland Main
Line south of Leicester,
b.
Creates capacity onto and off the West Coast Main Line at Rugby – enter via the
north, exit via the south and loop round via grade separated junctions.
c. Can be
used for a variety of long and short conventional passenger and freight
workings.
d. Can be
designed and engineered to cater for new and experimental freight flows like
Roll-on, Roll-off, Piggyback and Motor-Rail as well as more capacity for
growth. Blisworth freight depot, a pre-planning condition should be that it
invests in reopening Northampton-Bedford to keep its freight off the busy West
Coast Main Line, currently these developers have no guidance or incentive to
make that contribution, and they should.
Join ERTA
The English Regional
Transport Association (ERTA) is a voluntary pro-public transport group which
started originally in Bedfordshire in 1997 and has grown in reach and range to
apply principles on coherent networks and foster conditions of access and
service to suite a wide and diverse range of customers. We advocate passenger
and freight by rail, unblocking our roads and improving air quality we all have
to breathe!
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Fitzherbert House, Kingsmead, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6HT
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