Penmaenmawr Quarry

[bigbadhenry]

Penmaenmawr Quarry reported to be having a new rail flow in 2017 (NORTH WALES COAST RAILWAY), any idea where it might be going.

I wondered if it might be for the new Trafford Park Metro line???

 

[RichmondCommu]

That's interesting because I don't think the quarry has generated any rail freight in quite some time. Indeed I'd assumed that the quarry had been completely worked out.

 

[bigbadhenry]

That's interesting because I don't think the quarry has generated any rail freight in quite some time. Indeed I'd assumed that the quarry had been completely worked out.

No it's still open. The quarry lost it contract with network rail as did not have a stone washing plant.

 

[QueensCurve]

Penmaenmawr Quarry reported to be having a new rail flow in 2017 (NORTH WALES COAST RAILWAY), any idea where it might be going.

It is at any rate a boost for the North Wales Coast line which [correct me if I am wrong] has no freight except for irradiated reactor fuel from Wylva - the days of which are numbered.

 

[Chester1]

It is at any rate a boost for the North Wales Coast line which [correct me if I am wrong] has no freight except for irradiated reactor fuel from Wylva - the days of which are numbered.

Hitachi is planning a new reactor at Wylfa so might generate further freight. Shame its not planning building at Almwich or Trawsfynydd instead, it could justify reopening the lines, which are unusable but still legally open.

 

[anti-pacer]

Hitachi is planning a new reactor at Wylfa so might generate further freight. Shame its not planning building at Almwich or Trawsfynydd instead, it could justify reopening the lines, which are unusable but still legally open.

Almwich? Sounds like somewhere in Cheshire. Its Amlwch, pronounced "Am-luke".

 

[6Gman]

Almwich? Sounds like somewhere in Cheshire. Its Amlwch, pronounced "Am-luke".

No. It's pronounced Amlwch!

Phonetically Am - loo - ch [hard, as in the Scots loch or the German ach].

 

[QueensCurve]

Hitachi is planning a new reactor at Wylfa so might generate further freight. Shame its not planning building at Almwich or Trawsfynydd instead, it could justify reopening the lines, which are unusable but still legally open.

There is an issue with Trawfynydd as the lake provides a relatively small heat sink for the reactors. Modern high power reactors are deemed unsuitable due to the consequent need for cooling towers in the national park.

Perhaps one or more small modular reactors could form a Trawfynydd B but there doesn't seem to be much appetite for this at the moment.

 

[bigbadhenry]

All nuclear fuel at the former Wylfa power plant should be off the site within two years, specialist teams have said.

And it will require nearly 500 more journeys of specially constructed nuclear flasks from Anglesey to Sellafield in Cumbria. BBC Wales

 

[QueensCurve]

And it will require nearly 500 more journeys of specially constructed nuclear flasks from Anglesey to Sellafield in Cumbria. BBC Wales

Surely they will use the existing 47t cuboid flasks?

 

[bigbadhenry]

Surely they will use the existing 47t cuboid flasks?

From what was shown on the BBC Welsh news I think you're correct.

 

[deepthought]

Nice to see more freight on the North Wales Coast.

 

[krus_aragon]

Surely they will use the existing 47t cuboid flasks?

Technically, the existing flasks were specially constructed for nuclear traffic. They're just not new any more.

 

[bigbadhenry]

No it's still open. The quarry lost it contract with network rail as did not have a stone washing plant.

Penmaenmawr Quarry

In our recent item about possible events in the New Year we mentioned the work that was going on at Penmaenmawr Quarry sidings, and wondered whether it might presage some new rail traffic. Paul Chaplin of the Hanson company has written to tell us that the operation was to change the lights to LED bulbs - all Hanson sites are going through this change at the moment. Hanson UK have secured a five-year contract with Network Rail to supply ballast and there was a hope that Penmaenmawr would have been supplying 250,000 tons a year. However, it has been decided that the company's quarries in the Midlands will continue to supply Network Rail. There is a possibility that stone may be transported by rail from Penmaenmawr in the future; this would be going to Hanson sites in the South of England.

NORTH WALES COAST RAILWAY:NOTICE BOARD