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They spent umpteen Millions , if not Billions , upgrading the 10 miles of rail line from Ipswich to Felixstowe , [ the biggest container port in the country ] , with the result that several thousand more containers per week now go on trains .
The end result is that rail transport now manages to carry about 6% of goods movements in the country , & over 90% still go on the roads.
So the idea that the railways could ever manage to carry much of the countries freight is just fantasy .
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