Railway -Up to Two More Decades of Rail Problems

Yet one more rant about the Ipswich trains from Clare’s dads paper. I’m so glad that speedy repairs and improvements are being considered for the East of England mainline from London to Norwich.  You would have thought they would have wanted to sort out the problems before the 2010 Olympics hit the east of London?  I guess this is why journey times have lengthened in contrast to the other mainlines and I’ve noted that we don’t hit 100 MPH on my GPS until we get past Colchester.

‘ENGINEERS could take more than 20 years to solve all the overhead wire problems on the London to East Anglia main line, the region's top rail boss warned today.
A section of the overhead wire in Essex dates back more than 50 years as it was put
up by pre-nationalisation company LNER in the late 1940s.
Now it has been warned it could take another 20 years before this infrastructure is completely replaced.’