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London Rail Freight Since 1985 (Paperback)
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London Rail Freight Since 1985 (Paperback)
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London's rail freight traffic is dictated by the geography of the
city. When railways first came to London, each line was built by a
different company seeking to link their area to the capital. There
was no through service from one side of London to the other, and
indeed the railway companies were prevented from entering the
central area of the City and West End. In order to transfer freight
traffic from one company to another, the various railway companies
made links to the orbital North London Railway, which ran from
Broad Street station in the east to Richmond in the south-west, and
also had a route into the east London docks. Traffic from north to
south London was dictated by the River Thames and the need to
maintain height for navigation to the upriver docks and wharves.
Thus there were no bridges east of London Bridge until Tower Bridge
(road) opened in 1894, and no others until the QE2 bridge at
Dartford (also road) opened in 1991. Most cross-river traffic,
which these days includes traffic to and from the Channel Tunnel,
used the route through Kensington Olympia and the river bridge at
Chelsea. This book takes the freight routes around London
geographically, in an anti-clockwise direction, starting in east
London north of the Thames and ending in south-east London. It
covers the period since 1985 when BR blue gave way to corporate
sectors with different liveries and on into privatisation, and
shows the various types of locomotives used, and freight traffic
carried over this period.
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