The primary focus of rail is it's ability to carry huge loads of freight, which it does more economically than road or air.
True, but only if freight owners choose to use the rail system. They won't choose to use freight trains if they are unreliable and inefficient.
Currently the passenger trains with their outdated and poorly maintained engines have priority in rail traffic control; freight trains often wait so many hours for a late passenger train to pass that they can't make it to their destination on schedule
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If we got rid of long-distance passenger trains we could run the freight trains on time, so freight owners wouldn't be so reluctant to use them
. It's a shame that so few voter/taxpayers realise this; we need
transport specialist journalists back in the mainstream press
If God wanted trains to travel at 250 KPH he would have given them wings.
Said like a true pilot!!
And very true!