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New service to support UKs automotive industry by moving 315kt of aggregate by rail GB Railfreight (GBRf) has this week announced the commencement of a new service to move aggregates from Shap Summit Quarry to Battleship Wharf in North Blyth. The aggregates are being moved for Breedon and will be used for the foundations of a BritishVolt gigaplant, which is strategically important to the UKs automotive industry and a key component in the drive to the UK achieving Net Zero by 2050.
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A freight train has crashed off the tracks in Northumberland.
The wagons, which were carrying coal from Blyth to Cottam power station, left the rails at West Sleekburn near Bedlington on Monday night. Incredibly, nobody was injured in the crash. But the derailed DB Schenker train remained strewn across the line on Tuesday morning. (Permalink) Bedlington Blyth and Tyne Railway Cottom Power Station Derailment North Blyth West Sleekburn  West Sleekburn Junction: Scene at West Sleekburn Junction in the 1960s with 62067 approaching with empty hoppers off the North Blyth branch heading for Bedlington Furnace Way sidings. There the locomotive would run round its ... |
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