We get a lot of rail containers through Doncaster already, but I remember when the Post Office cancelled its rail contract, just after some new bespoke units were delivered.
Oh and also tanker shaped wagons, which may not be liquid cargo.
Steam was ended prematurely on the back of political dogma.
And Woodhead was an early electric main line to European loading gauge, as I recall, but not the right voltage to survive. Some of those early electrics were sold to the Netherlands.
Politicians are intrinsically stupid. They can't help it. Beeching was a classic case, when Marples had his fingers all over road building. The Tories rushed through privatisation just before being booted out. The list is endless.
