Closed Freightliner Terminals

[The Crab]

Hmmm, Stratford, Leeds, Felixstowe, Tilbury, Southampton, Coatbridge, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool Garston, Seaforth/Aintree, Bristol (although it's moved from its original location) and Manchester Trafford Park.

Barking (Ripple Lane) became Thamesport and Stockton moved and became Cleveland Container Terminal.,

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

Thank you.

The Crab

 

[GearJammer]

Given the growth in containerised freight on the rail network I would be very surprised if Millbrook was to close which I think is operated by DBS?

I think Portsmouth (Fratton) was a general freight terminal as opposed to an out and out container (Freightliner) terminal.

Nope, trust me, ive worked there, Millbrook is owned and opperated by Freightliner, DBS run into the Western docks round by 109 berth!

 

[313103]

No, York Way was Maiden Vale, near Willesden I think, Kings Cross was a separate terminal, on the left hand side after you came out of Gasworks tunnel northbound from the station, if I remember correctly.
York Way didn't close until 1971, it had a direct service from Nottingham, which opened in June 1969, but, I wasn't working there at that time, so, can't give you any more relevant information.

The Sheffield FLT was situated on the old Masborough Sorting Sidings outside Rotherham, north of Tinsley Yard.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

There was one in York Way which served the ECML and there was one also in York Way which was called Maiden Lane (to avoid confusion i think) which served the North London Line and was probably sited there for its easy connection to the WCML. The Maiden Lane site had a very short life and is now covered by a housing estate that was built in the late 1970s early 1980s.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Another one - Aintree (Containerbase) + Barton Dock Road (now back in business I believe)

Tilbury Mini Terminal , down by the grain silos riverside, also Barking Rail Handling. .

 

[the sniper]

Did Willesden get much domestic intermodal traffic in its later days? I know domestic intermodal is a sad shadow of what it was in the early Freightliner days (I don't believe Freightliner are even involved in the domestic intermodal market now?), but I'm surprised there isn't more of a market for Scotland to London services, considering that Hams Hall and Daventry are linked to Scotland.

 

[ex-railwayman]

I don't think there is any domestic traffic left these days, everything is box containers, certainly, no flat containers for carrying beer kegs, steel coils, aluminium ingots, etc.

Willesden had a lot of the Royal Mail traffic who had their own fleet of containers, they also had the Heinz food factory and the Guinness Brewery, which was served with tank containers.

So much has been lost over the years, all the domestic traffic has now gone back on the roads again, which was the reverse ideaology of the Freightliner concept.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.
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Is that where Par Liner siding comes from?

Par wasn't a FL terminal as such, they had container stacker machines which placed containers onto the FL flats as they came in from Plymouth into the sidings at Par, the train then went to Park Royal in West London, but, the service didn't last more than about 3 years, due to the traffic revenue not picking up, iirc.

By the way, who remembers the brake vans that we at one time used on Freightliners? Not the converted container "caboose", but a modified LMS full brake. I remember seeing one going through Arbroath in the mid 1960's with "air braked, gas heated" on the side. I'm sure it was painted white, or a least a light colour.

I never saw one in real life, but, you are correct that they used brake vans before the concept of the guard travelling in the back of the cab on the locomotives.

Given the growth in containerised freight on the rail network I would be very surprised if Millbrook was to close which I think is operated by DBS?

Southampton Millbrook always was a Freightliner depot, and they handled all the domestic traffic for Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire in its heyday, all the local beer deliveries, and the MoD traffic for all the military depots down south including Salisbury Plain, Ludgershall, Liphook, etc, it was a very, very extensive operation.
Southampton Maritime never had a road vehicle fleet of its own, so, didn't get involved with the local traffic for deliveries.
Now that the domestic market has significantly dried up, and the cut backs with the Military budget by the Gov't, I wouldn't like to say how long Millbrook has left to operate, it would be a big shame if it went, but, that's current economics for you.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[Ploughman]

We have one.
I think 3 still survive, 1 in the NRM at York and another in Southampton. Unless anyone knows different.

http://yorkareagroup.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/wagon-photos_1/caboose-nymr.jpg

 

[ex-railwayman]

That's a good find, thank you for posting it.

I also remember being told about the daily Freightliner Service to Paris from Stratford in the late 60's/early70's, I don't think it lasted long though.

And of course, there were the ships, Sea Freightliner 1 & 2, I think they were called, that sailed between Harwich and Zeebrugge daily.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[OwlMan]

Coventry (Gosford Green) Freightliner terminal was open from 1977-1981.

 

[paulb1973]

Coventry (Gosford Green) Freightliner terminal was open from 1977-1981.

Some of the trackbed (but not the track - lifted around 1983) survives around that area, although a school was built around Humber Avenue. The section of the Coventry Avoiding Line from the now-demolished Binley Road bridge to the WCML connection (severed c.1963) does still look like a railway, the rest being built-on when the A444 Phoenix Way was opened.

 

[PinzaC55]

Those sidings represent the last remaining stub of the line to Tyne Dock, via Boldon Colliery, that diverged from the Leamside line at Washington and closed in 1966. I think that Washington station also had a small goods yard at one time.

You could say that! This is my plan of Washington South Junction (the west end of the station) in 1910 http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/3796596166/sizes/l/in/photostream/