At Cambus/Blackgrange, the A-largest bonded warehouse site in Europe lies adjacent to the Stirling-Alloa railway, while the massive Shieldhall bottling plant in south west Glasgow is less than a mile by road from a mothballed freight
railhead at Deanside.
The HS2 line between Fradley and Crewe is proposed to pass through Stafford borough, with a
railhead and infrastructure maintenance base (IMB-R) earmarked for land to the west of Stone, near Yarnfield.
These changes will place the residents of Newcastle Road, Hanchurch, and potentially public road users at considerable additional safety risk." The councils have renewed their calls for the proposed
railhead to be relocated to an alternative site.
MIRP hope the
railhead wil be a "gamechanger" in the rail logistics business, offering faster Scottish links to a Europe-wide logistics network.
"Prior to this
railhead project, the Estonians only had one
railhead created during Soviet times, and it was outside of the military area," he said.
Neil McShane,
railhead manager of AV Dawson, said: "Nissan are doing great things with their new line and the electric car and we're proud to be part of their supply chain in the North-east.
On the South Wales network there were more than 23 incidents of delays, including the first train down from Rhymney, and the 6.33am service between Penarth and Bargoed lost 37 minutes of its journey due to "exceptional
railhead conditions" from Heath to Llanishen.
ConAgra Foods, one of North America's largest food companies, is expanding its giant Fort Worth distribution operation with the addition of a $17.7 million, 304,500 square foot refrigerated warehouse facility in the
Railhead Business Park.
EUROPE'S largest metal recycling operation is to double the size of its major
railhead in the Port of Liverpool to take mores crap metal off congested roads.
A spokeswoman for Land Rover said: 'We have reluctantly decided not to proceed with the proposed
railhead and rail link between the Solihull plant and the West Coast Main Line.
It is estimated that a 2.5-mile
railhead, linking the factory to the main freight lines near the National Exhibition Centre, would save at least 90 million road miles a year by taking car and component deliveries off the roads.