New stone train for Lake District

Direct Rail Services has a new aggregates flow, for its new rolling stock, over a distance that’s not often viable for rail freight. Moving loads within just one county, start to finish, is something of a rarity on the UK network. However, topography and infrastructure have conspired in favour of rail.

The English Lake District is full of, well, lakes. It’s also full of mountains, and those mountains are a useful source of high-quality aggregates. From one highly elevated source to a coastal destination, rail is providing the ideal mode for transferring those building materials to a new project.

Rail ideal for movement

Nuclear Transport Solutions’ rail division, Direct Rail Services (DRS) has begun moving over 46,000 tonnes of aggregate for a project they describe as vital to the safe and secure disposal of nuclear waste. DRS will operate two trains a day, four days a week, to Nuclear Waste Services…