Welcome back to Tilbury RCT
With the opening of the London Gateway container terminal on the north Thames estuary situated on a former oil refinery site (so already rail connected), the Freightliner owned and operated Tilbury RCT terminal effectively lost all its rail traffic. Having been dormant for a couple of years now, rail traffic has returned in the shape of a DRS operated service to Daventry conveying Tesco and Stobart containers and swap bodies. Unusually DRS is also using the nearby Purfleet Deep Water Wharf terminal for loading traffic for Daventry in parallel. Very smart looking 66421 hauls a STP 4M07 working from Tilbury RCT to Daventry service which additionally on this day had a 2.5 hour stop over at Ripple Lane to add more traffic. Pictured on the Kensal Green cord, Willesden in a very lucky patch of sun on Tuesday 18 September 2018
Welcome back to Tilbury RCT
With the opening of the London Gateway container terminal on the north Thames estuary situated on a former oil refinery site (so already rail connected), the Freightliner owned and operated Tilbury RCT terminal effectively lost all its rail traffic. Having been dormant for a couple of years now, rail traffic has returned in the shape of a DRS operated service to Daventry conveying Tesco and Stobart containers and swap bodies. Unusually DRS is also using the nearby Purfleet Deep Water Wharf terminal for loading traffic for Daventry in parallel. Very smart looking 66421 hauls a STP 4M07 working from Tilbury RCT to Daventry service which additionally on this day had a 2.5 hour stop over at Ripple Lane to add more traffic. Pictured on the Kensal Green cord, Willesden in a very lucky patch of sun on Tuesday 18 September 2018