WITH changes afoot that will affect the accessibility and infrastructure standards relating to passenger trains over freight lines, UK Railtours (UKR) is offering customers the ‘Last Chance?’ railtour on April 8, which will cover some of these lines.
Maintaining train crew route knowledge as well as the track and signalling on freight routes to a standard required for an occasional passenger train can be costly and is why some freight lines will become difficult to visit in the future.