Rail Freight Flows and News UK

[matt99001]

as the post says 'and then road' so it'd be presumably via M5 and M4.

Well I see that Lindsey Oil Refinery has some paths in the diary starting from December - in line with when Milford Haven will cease operations.

 

[D6130]

Well I see that Lindsey Oil Refinery has some paths in the diary starting from December - in line with when Milford Haven will cease operations.

I thought that Lindsey refinery had closed?

 

[topperco]

I thought that Lindsey refinery had closed?

I believe it has but Humber Oil Refinery is still operating,which is next door to Lindsey,and uses the same paths.

 

[EastWest]

I have read that Humber are now using Lindsey for oil storage and the occasional dispatch of trains.

 

[Freightmaster]

I have read that Humber are now using Lindsey for oil storage and the occasional dispatch of trains.

Correct - there is also a plan to restart deliveries to Jarrow soon.

 

[DH1Commuter]

Correct - there is also a plan to restart deliveries to Jarrow soon.

Excellent- no Jarrow oil for a long time.

 

[WessexEclectic]

Correct - there is also a plan to restart deliveries to Jarrow soon.

What's caused this change? TIA.

 

[JKF]

I've read Westerleigh will be served by sea to Avonmouth and then road. Don't know about Theale.

There used to up to 15 oil trains a day to and from the three Milford Haven refineries when I was holidaying in Pembrokeshire in the 1970s. Wagonload freight, parcels and sleeper trains were running too. Spent many happy hours in Johnston signal box watching them.

The Robeston oil traffic is down to 3 trains a week now, and from December there will be nothing. With the Fishguard freight traffic also long gone, freight traffic in Pembrokeshire / West Wales will be finished.

Could that be the end of the Westerleigh line? There’s also the OTP depot but I guess that could be accommodated somewhere else. Sustrans will be on the case immediately given they already have a path on the remaining section of the former Midland route.

 

[childwallblues]

Excellent- no Jarrow oil for a long time.

I remember the days when Jarrow was supplied from Stanlow.

 

[Trainman40083]

I remember the days when Jarrow was supplied from Stanlow.

As was British Rail, with much traction fuel (pink diesel).

 

[furnessvale]

As was British Rail, with much traction fuel (pink diesel).

sadly not in trainload quantities to any one location.

 

[Trainman40083]

sadly not in trainload quantities to any one location.

Well, given the volumes at the time.. That said, I gave it a good job, when BP closed their refinery for a period around 1990. Shell came up with 46 tank wagons at short notice, to start off supply to the Scottish depots.

 

[AndrewE]

sadly not in trainload quantities to any one location.

but presumably respectable numbers of wagons would have been sent from the origin on key services and then dispersed in 2's and 3's on other freight and trip services to depots...

 

[furnessvale]

but presumably respectable numbers of wagons would have been sent from the origin on key services and then dispersed in 2's and 3's on other freight and trip services to depots...

Correct, but Speedlink was closed down.

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Well, given the volumes at the time.. That said, I gave it a good job, when BP closed their refinery for a period around 1990. Shell came up with 46 tank wagons at short notice, to start off supply to the Scottish depots.

Exactly my point. 46 wagons divided between all the Scottish depots is not a trainload to each.

 

[Trainman40083]

Correct, but Speedlink was closed down.

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Exactly my point. 46 wagons divided between all the Scottish depots is not a trainload to each.

Well it was to Mossend.. I doubt any railway depot could have coped with more than a few tankers