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AS anyone else noticed the large number of
rail freight terminals in the Midlands which
are under construction or in planning stages?
At junction 15 on the M1, developers are aiming
to construct five million sq ft of warehousing in what
is called the Northampton Gateway Rail Freight
Interchange on a wedge of land between the West
Coast Main Line and the motorway.
Separately, and some may say contentiously, on the
west side of the line, another developer wants to erect
a similar amount of rail-connected warehousing. That's
10 million sq feet of warehouse space built either side
of the same section of rail line.
If these two plans weren’t enough in respect of
their size and affect on the local community, there are
plans on the table for another rail freight complex at
Elmesthorpe, on the Leicester to Birmingham line.
Here, a developer wants to build the Hinckley National
Rail Freight Interchange, comprising nine million feet
of warehousing – like the Northampton scheme, it's on
green field land.
Furthermore, there’s another new rail freight
distribution park with 6,000,000sq ft of warehousing
currently being built next to East Midlands Airport,
called East Midlands Gateway, and connected to the
Stenson Jct to Sheet Stores Jct freight-only line.
So, here are FOUR schemes totalling 24 million
sq ft, but include the in-progress extension at Daventry
rail freight terminal and you have 32 million sq feet of
new warehousing within 50 miles of each other.
How can such vast complexes be justified,
particularly as they are all so close to each other?
Before being accused of being anti-rail freight, let
me add another key fact.
The developers have been smart, and by presenting
each project as a “strategic rail freight interchange” and
a “nationally significant infrastructure project”, they
are circumventing traditional local council planning
controls.
Decisions on such strategic schemes come under
the remit of a department of the Government’s
planning inspectorate, with the final decision
being made by the Secretary of State for Housing,
Communities & Local Government.
I suspect I am not alone in finding it rather
unsavoury that four almost identical schemes,
located in close proximity, are proposed by different
developers, and all designed to fall outside the remit of
a local authority?
Objections to the plans by concerned local
residents won’t count for much and are likely to be
over-ridden by the ‘strategic’ nature of the schemes
which will be viewed to be in the ‘national interest’.
Within the Midlands are a number of unsuccessful
rail terminal schemes – Telford, which is lucky to see
one train a week; Prologis Park, Coventry has only
seen one, maybe two trains; and at Castle Donington,
Marks & Spencer has a rail-linked distribution centre
which – according to Network Rail – has
never
seen a
revenue-earning incoming freight train.
Leaving aside the matter of whether there are
sufficient freight paths on the WCML to serve the
sites, as all are next to motorway junctions there has to
be genuine concern whether rail will actually benefit
because there are no guarantees nor incentives to do
so.
While the developers proclaim thousands of jobs,
landscaping works, ecological mitigation, footpath
and cycleway links which will be nice for the people
working there, exactly what constitutes a ‘strategic’
element? And four ‘strategic’ sites within 50 miles?
I have a nagging feeling the ‘rail freight’ aspect
attached to these projects is no more than a sop to
ensure the developments get through the planning
process. It’s a view endorsed by a fellow railway
journalist, who opined: “The railway is being abused
as an Aunt Sally to garner planning acceptance
and funding for developers not least because rail is
environmentally sustainable. It’s fundamentally wrong
and indeed dishonest.”
It's likely within a few years these terminals will end
up being road-served because it’s cheaper, convenient
and more flexible, completely ignoring the green
credentials rail can offer.
It really would be nice to be proved wrong.
TRAIN OF THOUGHT
Editor’s
Comment
get to the bottom of where it’s all gone wrong.
The delay will badly hit Transport for London
financially with no fare income from Crossrail, possibly
until 2020, but overall rail income for TfL has been
declining. Fares have remained frozen for three years
and passenger numbers have been dropping
While the arguments simmer over who said what
to whom and when as the blame game is played out,
Crossrail gets added to a long list of major rail projects
seriously delayed or vastly over budget for one reason
or another. For a flagship project, it is so disappointing.
CHRIS MILNER, Editor
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Crossrail woes worsen
THINGS just get worse for Crossrail.
The capital’s major infrastructure project now
needs up to £2billion of extra money to complete the
mostly-in-tunnel section from Abbey Wood to Royal
Oak (Paddington). Plus, there is no firm guarantee of
the line opening this year.
Crossrail’s chairman has been forced to resign after
the deliberate and disgraceful press leaks he was about
to be sacked.
The fact the National Audit Office has launched an
investigation into overspending and delays to Crossrail
which should separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’ and
This issue was published on January 2, 2019.
The next will be on sale on February 6, 2019.
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January 2019. No. 1,414. Vol 165. A journal of record since 1897.
Contents
MAIN IMAGE:
The low
morning sun glints on
the air-smoothed boiler
casing of Bulleid Pacific
No. 34092
City of Wells
near Ramsbottom
with an East Lancs
Railway ‘Santa’ train
on December 16.
ANTHONY ROBERTS
INSET 1:
Class 166s pass
in Sonning Cutting.
INSET 2:
'Pug' No. 51218,
rescued by Richard
Greenwood.
INSET 3:
Class 58s at
Shirebrook.
Headline News
On the cover
Greater Anglia bi-mode ‘FLIRT’ No. 755405 made the type's
first solo main line trip in the UK on December 15, working
several test runs from Norwich Crown Point depot to Diss.
Crossrail opening delayed indefinitely, MPs savage rail
industry and DfT over May timetable fiasco, Springburn
Works to close, first electric trains for Manchester-
Bolton-Preston, NER Autocar wins heritage awards,
Crewe Diesel Depot open day planned for June.
Track Record
The Railway Magazine’s
monthly news digest
62 Steam & Heritage
Restoration plan for ‘forgotten’ BR ‘4MT’ 2-6-0, ‘Terrier’
and ‘Schools’ for Nene Valley March gala,
Wightwick Hall
is 150th Barry ‘escapee’ to steam, ‘B12’ and
Bahamas
for
Worth Valley gala, No. 75069 steams at SVR.
67 Industrial
68 Steam Portfolio
70 Irish
72 Narrow Gauge
74 Miniature
76 Network
Leeds to gain extra and longer platforms, £5m upgrade
for Kidsgrove station, Virgin and Eurostar offer through
ticketing, farewell to Humberside's semaphores.
78 Metro
80 Classic Traction
82 Railtours
84 Railtours Portfolio
86 World
88 Traction & Stock
ROG considers tri-mode locos, Class 710 delays rumble
on, ScotRail Class 153 plans unveiled, first Anglia
‘Aventra’ ready for testing, positive reaction to Merseyrail
‘777’ mock-up.
GCR-based‘Modified Hall’No. 6990
Witherslack Hall
made a
successful return to the Severn Valley Railway in December
to help with the festive season traffic. The Hawksworth 4-6-0
crosses Bewdley South Viaduct with a‘Santa Special’ on
December 9.
JOHN TITLOW
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Regulars
10 Railways in Parliament
53 Readers’ Platform
56 Panorama
Our regular gallery of the best railway photography from
around the world.
60 From
The RM
Archives
98 Meetings
102 Heritage Diary
Panorama: Raising a flurry of snow, East Midlands Trains
‘Meridian’ No. 222018 passes Clay Cross with a St Pancras
International to Sheffield Midland working on March 18,
2018.
ROBERT FALCONER
Details of when Britain’s unique collection of heritage
railways and railway museums are open.
113 Reader Services
114 Crossword and Where Is It?

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