Britain mulls prioritising freight train over passenger services
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A ballot for strike action will see the UK government prioritise the movement of freight trains in a way not seen since the general mobilisation at the outbreak the First World War. The stark warning comes in defiance of an all-out rail strike demanded by unions. British media sources say that plans have been drawn up to see ‘tracks reserved’ for freight services, in order to keep supply chains open and supermarket shelves filled.
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As “On Demand” has become Strategy and contemporarily as at railways, no diverting is possible…, now society indeed proves vulnerable.
More and more obvious it is, that alternative supply chains has to be present and in particular nearby, regionally, domestic, etc.
Reinforced as well, it has to be, with dito depots of vital raw materials.
(For sake of low risk, what it now is about, at any supply chain, diverting has to be provided for, by robustness (redundancy and resilency) .