Stobart Tilbury trial success – daily service now planned

EDDIE Stobart Logistics (ESL) confirmed in late-January its trial of a new intermodal railfreight flow from the Port of Tilbury to Daventry in Northamptonshire had been successful and will be rolled out as a daily service this year.

The Stobart Rail-branded service, hauled by Direct Rail Services (DRS), has an initial capacity of 200 containers a week.

**DRS traffic for Eddie Stobart and Tesco is on the rise with the addition of a new service linking the Port of Tilbury with Daventry. On January 31, No. 88001** **Revolution** passes a snowy Docker, near Oxenholme, in charge of 4S43, the 06.16 Daventry DRS (Tesco)-Mossend Euroterminal ‘Tesco Express’. A fine array of Lake District Fells makes a superb backdrop. PAUL BIGGS

It is expected to increase runs daily ‘within weeks’, with a second flow from Tilbury to Widnes in Cheshire also planned.

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The train has been introduced as part of a strategy to reduce ESL’s reliance on short Channel crossings between Calais and Dover, which are expected to be most severely affected if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal to secure continued free trade.

Read more in the March 2019 issue of The RM – on sale now!

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Nigel Devereux is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, working in the School of English and Journalism. He has worked within the print publishing industry for 38 years. Nigel was editor of his hometown newspaper - The Horncastle News - from 1998-2001. Nigel is currently the Production Editor on The Railway Magazine, the UK’s biggest selling magazine for railway enthusiasts. He is also responsible for maintaining and updating several websites across the Mortons portfolio.
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