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    Lindsey Oil Refinery's Future, impact on rail freight

    Apologies if anyone has brought this up yet, but Prax who own/operate Lindsey Oil Refinery have gone into receivership. This may leave only four UK Refineries unless a buyer is found and could have a major impact on Freight flows as it appears to be the UK refinery with the largest Rail output...
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    New Mega Battery Plant at Bridgwater.

    Recent announcement of plans to build a Large Battery manufacturing facility on the site of ROF Puriton makes me wonder if it will lead to the reinstatement of the branch into the site. A Concrete bridge over the M5 built in the seventies is still in place. It does seem a strange place...
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    Longest Stretch of Plain Track

    Recent mention of the Settle Junction to Carnforth line, in a thread relating to the least used stretch of double track, has reignited a query that I have wondered about for some time. I am sure I will be directed to a previous post but: What is the longest stretch of plain track on the UK...

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