HOW WAGONLOAD FREIGHT COULD BE REVOLUTIONISED
Details are given of a method of wagon load freight distribution devised by the Research Department of BR. The new scheme aims to reduce overall rail vehicle standing time in yards to 1/2-day weekly. The freight network would be organised as 20 areas. The nucleus of each area would be a major depot and within the orbit of each major depot would lie 15-20 minor depots. The major depots would be fed from and feed to their satellite minor depots by an area network of regular-interval shuttle trains; and the major depots would be interlaced by a trunk-haul regular-interval shuttle service. The network would be devised to restrict the average road haul between customers premises and minor depot to five miles, to keep the average minor-major depot haul within the 15-20 mile range, and the average trunk haul between major depots to 125 miles. A cheap swift means of container loading and unloading utilising the forces of gravity is described whereby the containers to be loaded are placed on a platform sloping towards the track; a platform sloping away from the track receives off-loaded containers. /TRRL/
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Corporate Authors:
Ian Allan Limited
Terminal House
Shepperton, Middlesex England TW17 8AS -
Authors:
- Freeman, B J
- Publication Date: 1976-4
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos;
- Pagination: p. 137-9
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Serial:
- MODERN RAILWAYS
- Volume: 33
- Issue Number: 331
- Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, Limited
- ISSN: 0026-8356
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Car utilization (Railroads); Containerization; Containers; Freight transportation; Intermodal services; Intermodal terminals; Networks; Physical distribution; Railroads
- Identifier Terms: British Rail
- Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation networks
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- Old TRIS Terms: Railway
- ITRD Terms: 1020: Container (freight); 9016: Distribution (gen); 1112: Freight transport; 8119: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00147867
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM