First. Interesting header, thanks Richard. How much would this cost? Children start school at 4/5 as it’s state subsidised child care. You know some people actually plan to have children towards the … (View Post)

A Trafford Park in every town and city? There’s some evidence of a trend in that direction: https://www.railfreight.com/railfreight/2021/05/10/sheffield-sees-iconic-marshalling-yard-reborn-as-intermo… (View Post)

But you still need lorries to take individual containers from Daventry, Lawley Street or Trafford Park to their final destination. It’s because we’re a small country that road haulage makes sense. (View Post)

That's another release: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1945/freight-rail-usage-and-performance-2020-21-q4.pdf Unsurprisingly it held up better than passenger usage in 2020-21. (View Post)

Whereas the Tories started from the fact that they needed a credible excuse for opposing a third runway at Heathrow in the 2010 GE and went from there... (View Post)