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Thanks Philip.
This line has been on the cards for quite a while.
I don't know how high it is on the railway's shopping list, but I do know that investment everywhere is being cut drastically due to financial damage of Covid.
Also I'm rather surprised by the talk of sharing the line between freight and passenger traffic. This can really throw the punctuality figures. Passenger traffic is supposed to hit their pathways within 120 seconds or so, whilst freight might be plus or minus 6 hours! Works OK if all the goods traffic runs between 01:00 and 06:00, but then there's no scope for engineering work.
Call me an old cynic, but this sounds more like wishful thinking rather than a fully thought-through plan.
Cheers, John
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