Freight

  • Power station decline continues as Cottam faces closure

    Power station decline continues as Cottam faces closure

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    EDF Energy has announced it will stop electricity generation at Cottam Power Station, in Nottinghamshire, on September 30, writes Chris Booth.  The coal-fired 2,000MW facility is one of two EDF power stations in North Nottinghamshire, and although West Burton ‘A’ will remain open, the company says Cottam will not be ‘economically viable’ beyond the end…

  • Extended Buxton sidings boost Peak stone traffic

    Extended Buxton sidings boost Peak stone traffic

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    Hogshaw Lane Sidings in Buxton have been transformed by a £14million project to accommodate longer limestone trains from local quarries.  The two sidings, close to Buxton station, are on the site of the former London & North Western Railway (LNWR) engine shed, and are used by Freightliner and DB Cargo trains to and from the…

  • Made of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire

    Made of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire

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    Ben Jones visits one of the country’s most important locations – Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry in Derbyshire.

  • £25million support for for Scottish rail freight industry

    £25million support for for Scottish rail freight industry

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    The Scottish Government has allocated £25million to support the country’s rail freight industry over the next five years.

  • First Class 70 over Coalville branch

    First Class 70 over Coalville branch

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    THE freight-only Coalville line in Leicestershire has seen the passage of its first Class 70.  No. 70802 became the first of the class over the line on April 1 when it was used on a Westbury to Stud Farm working to collect ballast.  Colas is understood to have just taken over this working for Network Rail…

  • First Maritime Class 66s unveiled by DB Cargo

    First Maritime Class 66s unveiled by DB Cargo

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    DB CARGO has signed a long-term agreement with Maritime Transport Ltd to run Maritime Intermodal, a new rail freight operation.

  • BLS charity tour to explore Yorkshire freight lines with Colas and WCRC ’37s’

    BLS charity tour to explore Yorkshire freight lines with Colas and WCRC ’37s’

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    No fewer than four rarely visited freight installations in Yorkshire will be explored by the Branch Line Society on July 20.

  • American freight locos rebuilt in Estonia

    American freight locos rebuilt in Estonia

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    AMERICAN manufactured diesel locos, once used in the USA, are being completely rebuilt in Estonia for use there and also in Ukraine.  Estonian state-owned rail freight company Operail inherited the former US Class 1-operated diesel locos which were imported during 2002/03 when the business was run by private company Baltic Rail Services – trading as…

  • Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

    Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

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    Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society runs rail tours around the busy rail-served complex of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks on selected summer weekends.

  • Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

    Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

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    David Ratcliffe reviews the fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’ workings.

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