The UK track authority, Railtrack (in administration), is getting the flak for electing to shut a section of the West Coast Main Line (WCML) for essential work at weekends rather than during the night. Passenger train operators complained and politicians howled, but perhaps keeping the night time freight window open is more important.
The WCML is Britain's principal rail freight corridor, accounting for 43 percent of rail freight traffic. The wider significance of this traffic has been highlighted by a study carried out by JacobsGibb (JG) , an engineering and environmental consultancy firm in the UK which is part of US-based Jacobs Engineering Group....
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Approx 1000 words from WorldCargo News, April 2002,
page 26.
