Cadbury's Chirk and Leominster

[Gathursty]

Both of the Cadbury plants at Chirk and Leominster are very close to the railway. I dont think either currently have a rail connection but did they ever have a connection to rail?

Very curious that both facilities are along the Marches line in an otherwise poor-ish road transport area.

 

[Gloster]

Both of the Cadbury plants at Chirk and Leominster are very close to the railway. I dont think either currently have a rail connection but did they ever have a connection to rail?

Very curious that both facilities are along the Marches line in an otherwise poor-ish road transport area.

Chirk had a siding that was brought into use 18 February 1968 and removed 14 March 2004. The Private Siding Agreement was dated 20 December 1971.

Source: Cooke’s Diagrams, Section 64.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

@Gathursty. Is the chocolate factory you're asking about in Leominster, the one at Marlbrook, Herefordshire, which was acquired by Cadbury's in 1936, and is located just off the A49 around four miles South of the town centre?

 

[Gloster]

@Gathursty. Is the chocolate factory you're asking about in Leominster, the one at Marlbrook, Herefordshire, which was acquired by Cadbury's in 1936, and is located just off the A49 around four miles South of the town centre?

That doesn’t appear to have had a rail connection unless it was installed after 1970.

Source OS 1:2500 maps.

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

The A49 Leominster By-Pass (opened in the late '80s) runs between the factory and the railway, as does the old A49.

 

[Gathursty]

@Gathursty. Is the chocolate factory you're asking about in Leominster, the one at Marlbrook, Herefordshire, which was acquired by Cadbury's in 1936, and is located just off the A49 around four miles South of the town centre?

Yes.