Overseas railways show way to lower cost rural lines

A new model for rural rail lines is proposed in the McNulty report which draws heavily on experience from passenger railways in Europe and freight railways in North America. It involves piloting an approach which views rural lines as essentially separate to services on the main network, while providing connections to them. Less intensive maintenance and technical standards appropriate to low traffic levels would be applied and rolling stock adapted to reduce trains’ weight and minimise...

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