Rail freight sector waits for Ely enhancement decision

Richard Wilcock Industry Editor rail@bauermedia.co.uk

UPGRADES at Ely and at Haughley Junction remain in the balance, with the rail industry looking to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spending Review later this year for answers. At Ely, five tracks converge, creating a bottleneck for container traffic passing through the junction from Felixstowe (via Haughley Junction) towards the Midlands. The Ely Area Capacity Enhancement is a project aimed at enhancing capacity to cope with ten trains per hour in each direction, instead of the current six. Despite promising discussions before October’s Budget, which led some to think that the project could finally get the green light, no announcement was made. And since then, Rail Minister Lord Hendy has said that decisions made by shipping company Maersk to stop using Felixstowe for large containers, instead moving them to London Gateway,…

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