Moorswater trains

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[grahame]

Crikey thats a lot of cement.  Wonder where its all being used

Hope the wagons are well sealed if they go through Dawlish during a storm ...

[ellendune]

Crikey thats a lot of cement.  Wonder where its all being used

Most of Devon and Cornwall I expect

[LiskeardRich]

Either 21 or 24 wagons this week.

[woody]

Much of that cement I suspect will be heading for Plymouth  where there is now a  massive construction boom going on. There are several high rise student accommodation developments under construction with more about to start. One 23 story building is nearly complete and another 14 story block is under construction, two more 17 story buildings have been given planning permission and construction is about to start on the former bus station site at Breton Side on a £45million IMAC cinema complex. Construction on the 5000 home new town of Sherford straddling the Plymouth /South Hams boundary is now underway as well. Indeed Plymouth is undergoing it biggest construction boom since the post war rebuild following the devastating blitz on the city centre.That's why a new cement import terminal is under construction at the cities Corporation Wharf in Cattedown.
http://www.globalcement.com/news/itemlist/tag/Corporation%20Wharf

http://euroblend.com/west-country-cement/

It will be interesting to see if the cement trains continue to run when the new cement terminal in Plymouth opens.

[Andy]

Re the Plymouth cement terminal at Cattedown, I don't suppose for a second that a link-up between the terminal and the branch is envisaged....?
 

[LiskeardRich]

The cement plant being created in Plymouth is by a rival company. Rail haulage at present is cheaper than road when we're looking at 20+ wagons, so I'd expect Moorswater to be the cheaper supplier as they also don't have a new facility to recoup costs from

[woody]

Surely it must make more economic sence to import cement directly by sea to Plymouth, the main market for it, than to haul a heavy cement train past Plymouth to Liskeard, and then having to haul it back to Plymouth by lorry along what is still largely single carriageway up hill down dale A38 road in Cornwall.

[smokey]

Surely it must make more economic sence to import cement directly by sea to Plymouth, the main market for it, than to haul a heavy cement train past Plymouth to Liskeard, and then having to haul it back to Plymouth by lorry along what is still largely single carriageway up hill down dale A38 road in Cornwall.

A lot of Cement comes from the Hope Valley area (between Manchester and Sheffield) not much point in transshipping by Sea.

[ellendune]

Surely it must make more economic sence to import cement directly by sea to Plymouth, the main market for it, than to haul a heavy cement train past Plymouth to Liskeard, and then having to haul it back to Plymouth by lorry along what is still largely single carriageway up hill down dale A38 road in Cornwall.

A lot of Cement comes from the Hope Valley area (between Manchester and Sheffield) not much point in transshipping by Sea.

But a lot is imported from other countries - the Plymouth facility describes it as a Cement Importation Terminal.  I was assuming it would theerfore be coming from abroad. 

[LiskeardRich]

Just to update this service is still running weekly, with between 20 and 25 trucks in the rake.

[TonyK]

Crikey thats a lot of cement.  Wonder where its all being used

Someone was building an environmentally friendly wind farm.