As I sat down to write this column, an email pinged into my inbox from the government’s daily update service, heralding “How the government is reforming the railways to put passengers first”.
Now, I do understand how to write an attention-grabbing headline, but I wonder if the Department for Transport is missing a trick by its persistent exclusion of freight from the narrative.
The update, a sensible and coherent statement given to Parliament on rail reform, set out a number of positive steps being taken in the passenger railway.
But it was totally silent on freight. It could, for example, have highlighted the very positive move to discount track access charges for new freight services, recently introduced by Network Rail. Surely Parliamentarians would see that as a positive action from…
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