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Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 16:45 #28404
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Do any gypsum trains run to Immingham? Just need to know this little snippet of info :S
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 18:59 #28407
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ive never seen one... closest would be bessacarr - lincoln via gainsborough trent junction if you relate it to south humberside sim
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 19:59 #28410
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 20:49 #28411
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Do some Gypsum Trains run to West Burton Power Station?
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 20:52 #28412
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there were flyash trains to/from west burton (containerised not presflos!) but i dont think it was gypsum. the flow of gypsum is north to south
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 29/01/2012 at 21:33 #28414
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Just to clarify what Joe(jc92) has posted. It really depends whay era you are talking about. Fly-ash trains ran to & from West Burton power station to Little Barford & then to Fletton. These trains were worked by Cl.47s with 40-odd Prestflo wagons (CPAs) during the 1980s. In the late 1990s & post 2000 there was a train from Peak Forest conveying limestone to West Burton power station after the de-sulphurisation plant was opened & running. Train was hauled by a Cl.60 out stabled at Peak Forest conveying bogie hoppers.
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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 03/02/2012 at 18:06 #28758
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There are gypsum trains from West Burton (power stations produce gypsum as a bi-product of the de-sulphurisation process). They run to Mountfield and/or Hotchley Hill (East Leake). Currently GBRf run the trains. There are two daily paths to Mounfield (4E19/4O19 and 4E20/4O20), and two daily paths to Hotchley Hill (4M80/4E80 and 4M82/4E81). The Mountfield trains share loading points with Southampton Western Docks and Drax, and Hotchley Hill shares with Cottam and Drax.

GBRf operate these trains, using 3 class 66 locos and FEA flat wagons (18 per set usually) with up to 3 x 20 foot containers of gypsum on board (the empty trains return empty gypsum containers to the power stations). Not all the paths run every week, and the trainplan does vary from week to week.

Hope that helps.

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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 03/02/2012 at 18:11 #28760
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Flyash - there are containerised flyash trains from West Burton to Tilbury today. The trains are irregular runners (between once per week and once per fortnight on average). The trains are now worked by Freightliner Heavy Haul, having previously been Colas and Advenza. The pressured tanks are new on this flow a couple of years ago, and are in Cemex grey/blue.

Flyash is also conveyed to Theale in PCA cement tanks. Again, roughly a weekly train (I think) now, these often run via Earles Sidings and are conveyed as part of the regular cement trains - hence you wouldn't know that flyash is being conveyed.

Previously to this, EWS ran a twice weekly service from West Burton to Colnbrook in orange Rugby Cement tank tainers with flyash for the building of Heathrow Terminal 5.

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Re: Gypsum at Immingham 05/02/2012 at 13:47 #28871
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During my time at Immingham I cannot recall any gypsum trains actually serving Immingham, although for several years gypsum waste was dispatched from the British Tioxide works at Grimsby in container flats for disposal at Roxby Landfill.
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