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Despite the basic principle of free trade within the EU, foreign owned lorries are usually restricted to the work they can complete within a country. So for example an Irish owned truck can bring a load to the UK and I think can complete one domestic UK load before they must return to the UK...

Picking up on all today's points, I actually agree a HS2 at Liverpool Waters is very unlikely to happen, as LW has outline planning approval and will likely start being constructed before the first sod of HS2 is removed. I can't see a developer leaving sufficient space to build the required...

Totally agree, but any import from China would automatically be required to comply with EU standards by law. Any major infrastructure projects even if awarded to a foreign contractor will inevitably result in much of work subcontracted to local firms using local materials as it is usually not...

The fact is a lorry with movable skeleton trailer can operate more or less 24/7 363 days of the year (all UK container ports close Xmas and New Years day), with a team of three or four drivers working shifts from a port. A road haulier acting on behalf of a shipping will aim to turn an import...

Perhaps Boris may be on the right track. Sorry about the pun! http://youtu.be/VR9kRqdRbtA

Sorry to clarify the post is corrected appropriately below. How about build a connection to HS2 at Warrington to the CLC line and upgrade that to "semi-high speed" which is would then at worst allow Classic compatible stock to run on HS2 for the maximum distance at high speed. The existing...

How about build a connection at Warrington to the CLC line and upgrade that to "semi-high speed" which is would then allow HS2 compatible stock to run on HS2 for the maximum distance at high speed. The existing route to Lime Street could then be followed using compatible stock. Alternatively, if...

The Waterloo tunnel still runs from Edge Hill to a point near Wapping Dock (see link http://localwiki.net/liverpool/Liverpool's_Historic_Rail_Tunnels) which is adjacent to the proposed Liverpool Waters development to be built by the Peel Group who own the Port of Liverpool. This could offer a...

Given the investment that Peel is making to the infrastructure of the North West with Port of Liverpool and other schemes these comments may be of interest to readers http://www.liverpool2.com/timeline/86-liverpool2-and-hs2

Last I heard was all future deliveries of locomotives across the Atlantic to the UK would be using the Atlantic Container Line Roll On/Roll Off vessels into Liverpool. The locomotives are loaded on to mafi trailers and secured and hauled on and/off the ship over the stern ramp. The risk in the...

This press report from a Dutch shipping website. Quote New China-Europe railway route will open to freight by year's end CHINA's northeastern hinterland city Xian (pop 8.4 million) plans to start a new international container railway transport service via Xinjiang's Alashankou border pass...

Any intermodal traffic out of London Gateway will only be traffic that was previously handled by other ports and not new business. Tilbury is already scheduled to loose a big chunk this month, Felixstowe is also likely to loose business to the new port, whilst the last deep sea operator into...

Almost as bad as the decision to reverse the traffic flow in Skelhorne Street on the opposite side of station which now results in some passengers boarding buses and coaches on the road side when they park up outside the station because of the lack of space within.

This is an extract from Network Rail Network Rail Specification 2012 London North Western. Quote Merseyside Liverpool South Parkway turnback facility To provide the capacity for growth into Liverpool Central, the draft Merseyside Long Term Rail Planning Strategy has recommended provision of...

I would have thought very unlikely going by the images in this video. http://youtu.be/DhM49tgH_3s

Yes sorry the wording of my original post should have made it clearer that only classic compatible HS2 sets will call at Liverpool. CLC electrification, when it eventually goes ahead, will almost certainly be all the way to Manchester as well as the Airport. Like all future Merseyrail...

HS2 stock will be built to Continental standards which I suspect would be too large to travel through the tunnels to reach Lime Street let alone greater clearances along the existing route via Runcorn. Unless a brand new HS2 branch was built to Liverpool which seems very unlikely as the cost...

The DFT economic case for HS2 anticipates 2 tph from London to Liverpool, initially via Runcorn and Warrington Bank Quay (1 tph each) under phase 1 moving to 2 tph via Runcorn only under phase 2 using compatible stock so unless their is a drastic rethink I think it reasonable to take it Lime...

Just as a thought, the existing platform 6 is very narrow particularly near the buffer stops. Even if the train arrives and stops further down the platform, it is often difficult for alighting passengers and waiting passengers on the platform due to pass each other, especially when they are...

I totally agree four tracking is very unlikely to happen in the next 10 to 20 years but who knows what may happen beyond then and hence the question. However, should Merseytravel ever decide to extend the Merseyrail system through to Edge Hill then the position might change, only time will tell...