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A pox on rail fanatics : Comments

By Brendan O'Reilly, published 23/4/2021

What I have issue with, is people, who push the case for rail transport to the point of advocating projects that clearly have no hope of ever being economic.

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individual,
Building the whole thing as a bridge does not equate to not building bridges!
Posted by Aidan, Friday, 30 April 2021 11:14:10 AM
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Hasbeen, the type of cargo you described would be difficult to handle
by rail and so the cost would be up. Hay might be different and OK.
If oil fuel becomes too expensive the electric semi may become OK.
There have been some work done in that direction. Either Mercedes or
another German company experimented with electric semis and on the
autobahn had overhead wires and pantagraphs on the trucks.
That could give them power for large parts of the trip and charge the
batteries when entering the autobahn.
Tesla has a semi in the works and says they will put it on the market.
I think that oil based fuels will be withdrawn from the market.
It may not happen in the next 20 years but it will happen.
Posted by Bazz, Sunday, 2 May 2021 8:02:09 PM
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