The UK government has announced almost £123M of spending for structure gauge enhancements to allow carriage of 9ft 6in high cube boxes on standard flats (W10 gauge),via the Transport Innovation Fund (TIF). The schemes are additional to the £18.5M programme announced in July for the Gospel Oak-Barking line, which is significant for the future London Gateway container terminal.
Most of the new money (£80M) will go on the Peterborough to Nuneaton line, avoiding the need for high cube containers handled over the Port of Felixstowe to/from the West Midlands to cross London and be moved on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). This will ease concerns about the effects on rail freight of the Crossrail project (see WorldCargo News October 2007, p21)....
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