"Mrs Redboots" a écrit dans le message de
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Jack Taylor wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 26 Nov 2004:
"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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I was waiting for a connection at Denmark Hill station the other day,
having travelled from Clapham High Street, and heading onwards to
Lewisham. I was amazed how many goods trains I saw on that journey -
at
least two in each direction, if not three. And a huge train packed
full
of Citroen C3s, which I assume had crossed via the Channel Tunnel
Presumably most of the trains going towards central London would have
come from the Tunnel, but where do they go after Clapham High Street?
Most of them will cross at Wandsworth Road to the West London line
through
Kensington Olympia. From that line they can either run onto the West
Coast
Main Line and Wembley yard, take the high level route and continue along
the
North London line or touch the WCML at Willesden and then turn away to
join
the Gret Western Main Line at Acton.
Thank you. Where do they de-train the freight, as a general rule - the
old goods yards are obviously a thing of the past, but equally obviously
there must be a few terminals scattered around the country. You mention
Wembley - are there any others in the London area?
Yes, but note that Jack Taylor's reply deals more with marshalling yards
(most of which have been closed as redundant since the abandonment of
individual waggonload traffic) than with 'goods yards' (now called freight
terminals). Apart from private sidings used for trainload freight to/from
major manufacturers and their distribution centres, most terminals are
operated by Freightliner (
www.freightliner.co.uk) for transhipping standard
containers to/from road vehicles or ships. In the London area Freightliner
has terminals at Barking (Ripple lane), Tilbury and Thamesport (Isle of
Grain). As a direct connection between CTRL2 and the Barking - Tilbury line
is now under construction at Dagenham Dock sta. at least some of the freight
traffic now passing through Denmark Hill will presumably be re-routed via it
in due course.
Regards,
- Alan (in Brussels)