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Old 25-03-2008, 12:21 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ian C View Post
There is movement by various authorities to encourage passengers back to rail.
As for freight, road haulage could change to shuttle between premises and rail terminal as short term solution.
As was the case very successfully in Horse drawn Victorian and early Edwardian times! Unfortunately in motorised 1961, it took 14 days for my Moped to travel by train from Cambridgeshire to Devonshire even though I did the "Shuttle work" myself!
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