There's a website here that i remember from years ago detailing plans
to carry lorries on trains through the channel tunnel from places such
as Liverpool and Manchester via Gerrards Cross!

Could a service really work, and would it attract eurostar to run a few
trains up there as well? I'm sure there was once a suggestion to use E*
type trains to Manchester via this proposed route with london stations
at North Acton and Kensington Olympia. Would of course have to come
with full electrification.

GreatWesternSean wrote:

> 
> There's a website here that i remember from years ago detailing plans
> to carry lorries on trains through the channel tunnel from places such
> as Liverpool and Manchester via Gerrards Cross!


You're thinking of the Central Railway scheme: see
<http://www.central-railway.co.uk/>.


> Could a service really work, and would it attract eurostar to run a few
> trains up there as well?


Don't get me started! <g>

This has been discussed ad nauseam on uk.railway in the past. You might
want to do a bit of searching through Google Groups first:
<http://groups.google.co.uk/advanced_search?q=Central+Railway&hl=en&lr=&>.
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