Heinz Factory near Wigan to get its own siding?

[Pinus contorta]

There is a different way thinking about it.

Unhook the loco at wallgate, run it either into the sidings or on to the Pemberton lines, back through wallgate, into North Western, back into wallgate and propel the lot to heinz.

Would require a lot of changing of normal workings but it's possible.

There's only about a four hour window between the last trains coming into Wallgate to the Carriage Sidings and the start of the following days operations. If the Heinz container train is late what happens then?

 

[Eccles1983]

I agree with you both by the way.

Just throwing it out there that it is technically possible without going to Parbold.

 

[507020]

There's only about a four hour window between the last trains coming into Wallgate to the Carriage Sidings and the start of the following days operations. If the Heinz container train is late what happens then?

As in the train is still on the line and needs to make an unsignalled wrong direction movement to get off it after the blockade has ended and a signalled passenger train needs to use it.

That is a very good question. I suspect the people of Southport and West Lancashire will just have to suffer yet again, for the sake of not installing a crossover at the factory.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

If the Heinz container train is late what happens then?

Then Beansz Meanz Finez for the operator...?

 

[507020]

Then Beansz Meanz Finez for the operator...?

But if the driver gives it the Beanz they may be able to get it off the line just in time