In a PR exercise, Lafarge is holding three “open days” at its Westbury cement works this month, so local residents can check out alternative fuel burining (waste tyres) and a static display of some piggyback tanktrailers and Mega-3 wagons - the most heavily- backed of the SRA’s prize schemes.
Lafarge is hoping to start up a twice weekly service from Westbury to Southampton (Freightliner Millbrook), but at the time of writing, only one trial train has run. The piggyback train does not appear to be very cost-effective. Deadlength is relatively high (compared to 2 x 30ft tanktainers on a 60ft flat) and trailer payload is being kept down to around 24 tonnes, presumably because of handling limitations at the Millbrook railhead....
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