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Should taxpayers fund private sidings?

By and Kurt Bauer, Project Manager, Railistics GmbH2007-12-13T06:14:00

More than half of the rail freight traffic in many European countries originates at private sidings. Infrastructure is expensive, but grant programmes in Switzerland, Austria and Germany have proved a cost-effective use of public money

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