Chords separate freight and inter-city trains

Train 4M29, the 04.12 from Felixstowe to Barton Dock.

UK: On November 14 Transport Minister Simon Burns officially opened the Nuneaton North Chord, a 1·4 km link designed to remove conflicts between freight and inter-city trains on a key section of the West Coast Main Line.

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