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Rail Minister, Wendy Morton MP and Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price visited Tesco's UK-Europe rail hub at the Port of Tilbury following the retailers £5million investment in new rail freight services. Tesco's new investment, building on £2.5m of investment in recent years, includes the introduction of a new temperature-controlled rail freight service.
(Permalink) Forth Ports Tesco Tilbury

Tesco has partnered with Direct Rail Services (DRS) to launch a new refrigerated rail freight service from Tilbury to Coatbridge.
(Permalink) Coatbridge DRS Railfreight Tesco Tilbury


Bay Horse: One of the new refrigerated containers on the last wagon of a lightly loaded Tilbury to Coatbridge intermodal passing through Lancashire on 15th January 2022. Tesco has heavily publicised its new part ...
Mark Bartlett 15/01/2022


Bay Horse: Early days for the new Tilbury to Coatbridge intermodal service (See recent news item) and it was lightly loaded on 15th January 2022 as 88008 'Ariadne' headed north through the cutting at Forton. The ...
Mark Bartlett 15/01/2022

The UK has a shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers, so the weekly wine trains will deliver 4.5 million imported bottles to supermarkets before December 25.
(Permalink) Daventry Network Rail Tilbury Wine


Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: The board which welcomes rail enthusiasts to the viewing platform at DIRFT see image [[58147]]. There is another board for naturalists and archaeologists.
Ken Strachan 10/02/2017


Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: I may be losing count, but I think this hoarding, adjacent to the A5 Southbound, foreshadows DIRFT terminal 4. This will need an overbridge across the A5 similar to that over the A428, and an extensio ...
Ken Strachan 04/12/2015


Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: DRIFTs at DIRFT: DRS loco' 66.434 loads its train at the Tesco sidings. 68.003 can be seen in the background.
Ken Strachan 12/12/2017

London's leading provider of river, road and rail freight solutions, Walsh, has signed a 20-year agreement with the Port of Tilbury to help to meet the capital's demand for construction materials in the most sustainable way. The deal enables Walsh to create two new freight hubs at the port - the first will be a logistics terminal with aggregates processing.
(Permalink) Forth Ports Tilbury

Forth Ports, the UK's third largest ports group, has appointed rail freight expert Ian Wilson as its new Intermodal and Logistics Development Manager to focus on the rail offering in Tilbury and Grangemouth. Ian is a respected, senior executive who is highly experienced in the rail freight, logistics and supply chain industry. Ian previously worked for Eddie Stobart for 20 ...
(Permalink) Forth Ports Grangemouth Tilbury


Grangemouth: Colas 70805 nears its destination with the Dalston - Grangemouth Ineos empty tanks on 11 September 2018. Electrification work looked to be complete by this time.
Bill Roberton 11/09/2018


Grangemouth No 3 Signal Box: Grangemouth Yard as viewed from the west end, probably from the footbridge adjacent to Dock Road level crossing. In 1971 the yard was only a shadow of it's former self, albeit there is evidence of cem ...
Bill Jamieson 03/11/1971

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