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    From the above link, I have pasted the following.
    It is worth a read!

    "So why should the Government fund these four projects at a combined cost of £350 million? In a nutshell, because rail freight offers a crucial low carbon, energyefficient safer alternative to road and can deliver huge returns for every pound invested in it.

    The Freight Transport Association have used government figures to show that road congestion is now costing the UK around £24 billion a year. Rail acts as a freight bypass with each freight train of consumer goods able to remove 60 HGVs from our roads.

    Meanwhile a single aggregates train can replace a staggering 160 HGVs. Added to that, rail freight creates 70 per cent less carbon dioxide than the equivalent road journey, with a gallon of diesel carrying a tonne of freight 246 miles by rail as opposed to 88 miles by road."

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