NETWORK Rail is working with Ashfield Aggregates to restore sidings adjacent to the company’s aggregates base at Thorney Mill in West Drayton, West London, increasing rail handling capacity.
The new track layout will provide space for 26 wagons and create room for locomotives to run round their trains, reducing journey times and carbon emissions. Currently, the run round movement has to take place further down the line.
“We see rail playing a huge part in the future of construction and many other sections,” said Ashville Aggregates owner Daniel Ashville Louisy. “Rail is the main source of supply to our business and has helped us become the masters of our own destiny.”