All Rail Closures and Combined Transport Concepts

Ideas about reshaping a railway network and sharing its capacity with other modes, such as the closure of loss making lines and stations in favour of a smaller trunk network, and the carriage of road trailers and containers on railway wagons for the long haul part of a journey. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the concept a programme of railway closures, a rationalisation of a rail network, or a form of combined or piggyback rail and road transport. It excludes the question of track width, which belongs with the track gauge concepts. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.