Stobart moves to rail
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• Carlisle haulier Eddie Stobart plans to send up to 25% of its loads by rail within the next five years if it gets the right Government funding—and it will be reducing its truck fleet accordingly.
Commercial manager Richard Butcher expects to be running trains to South Wales by the end of next year if Government funding for a rail freight terminal is granted. The company is also planning a railhead in Kent near the Channel Tunnel terminal and it has applied for a freight facilities grant to start a dedicated rail service between Glasgow and Daventry.
The plan is for Eddie Stobart wagons to carry some of the hundreds of thousands of tonnes generated by the British Steel plant close to the terminal's site in Wales, just off J23 on the M4.
The firm plans to expand its rail volumes yearly by 20% for the next four years. A highcapacity curtainsider rail wagon is being designed for it and should be ready within a year.