"Roland Perry" wrote in message
.uk...
In message , at 10:13:02 on Sun,
26 Sep 2004, John Rowland
remarked:
If they do rebuild this depot and I Hope they do
It will take more lorries off the road

No it won't, unless you mean the road in Ruislip.

The depot will receive material by canal, and deliver it by train. In
both cases cutting lorries out of the equation.

That's just for the building work, and not all of it. Rails will be
delivered by one train twice a month and offloaded onto another for the work
to be done. You then have around 10 cars a day driving there on local roads
plus a few lorries.
After the site is built the canal unloading equipment will be removed and
the canalbank replanted. Surprisingly they complain about the canal (an
industrial transport link) being used again for work and not pleasure
purposes.
They say the depot will only be there for 15 years but I can see this
becoming permanent.

Nick