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Aviation fuel to run by rail from Isle of Grain?

Whilst this flow is run by Freightliner it is actually being run directly for British Airways. Quite why they need their own fuel must be some sort of commercial decision. There are currently 16 trains running per week, that means 21 wagons with 102K litres per wagon. The 21 comes from the...
- 4474
- Post #80
- 23 Nov 2019
- Forum: Infrastructure & Stations
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Aviation fuel to run by rail from Isle of Grain?

There used to be 5 pipelines into Heathrow. Two were from rail depots - Langley (closed by Total a few years ago) and Colnbrook (which used to be an Elf depot. However there are 3 more pipelines supplying fuel to Heathrow. remember that in the late 1990's Heathrow required over 20,000,000...
- 4474
- Post #75
- 21 Mar 2019
- Forum: Infrastructure & Stations

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