(18-06-2019, 04:23 PM)Terry Wrote:(17-06-2019, 11:13 PM)Refugee Wrote: A good half of freight trucks could be driven onto flat bed trains for the bulk of there journeys like they do to get them through the channel tunnel.
Are you thinking of a new range of mega-sized Dinky Toys?
The Channel Tunnel has the extremely large loading gauge of 13' 5" wide by 18' 4" high but, after getting to Folkestone this shrinks to 9' 0" x 12' 10" at its highest point with an 8' 9" radius, so you might have a teensy-weensy bit of trouble squeezing the trains under bridges and through tunnels.
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It would have to be a new extension from Folkston with a clone of the Queensferry crossing at Dartford or Tilbury and then the first stop at Brentford by the M25 and then up the west side of Lincolnshire to York or the M62.
Normal trains would be fine with mandatory automatic wheel chair ramps on all doors to go over the gap. No more moaning about lifting those pavement hogging push chairs in and out.
