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Network Rail (NR) has an obligation, transferred from the abolished Strategic Rail Authority, to periodically produce Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) documents. [1] The original programme was approved by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) in June 2006; [2] under an early version of the programme all but two RUSs were scheduled to be completed by the end of Control Period 3 (CP3), 31 March ...
Within these plans the rail network is divided into ten “devolved routes” or “operational routes”, with a Route Plan for each being published annually. [97] Each route or other plan covers a number of railway lines usually defined by geographical area and the routes are further subdivided into 17 “strategic routes”, each divided ...
Rail freight...has grown rapidly in the last 10 years...this strategy forecasts further growth of up to 30 percent – the equivalent of an extra 240 freight trains per day – over the next ten years [to 2014/5 from 2004/5]. For this additional demand to be met by road freight...would lead to around an extra 1.5 million lorry journeys on the ...
The sizes of the RA series are also slightly larger than corresponding inch-based US sizes specified in ANSI/ASME Y14.1, e.g. RA4 is roughly equivalent to 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 12 in (220 mm × 300 mm) and ANSI A (alias US Letter) is defined as 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 11 in (220 mm × 280 mm).
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Special routes, which can be labeled as alternate, bypass or business, depending on the intended use, provide a parallel routing to the mainline U.S. Highway. Before the U.S. Routes were designated, auto trails designated by auto trail associations were the main means of marking roads through the United States. These were private organizations ...
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