Old Sidings and Lines between Coventry and Nuneaton - Any Future for them?.

[james60059]

On a trip to LMS last week, passing the abandoned siding at Bedworth Oil Terminal, they looked really run down and nature is beginning to reclaim the railway part of the terminal. Looks quite surreal considering a decade ago it received at least 4 trains per week (Monday from Port Clarence, Tuesday and Thursday from Humber and Friday usually from Robeston), then dropping to an "as required" when Puma Energy took over, and the flow went over to GBRf.

I don't know much about oil distribution, or the industry as a whole, but does anyone know why Bedworth stopped receiving deliveries by rail?, or was it just a case of Puma concentrating on their main flows from Robeston/Immingham - Theale and Westerleigh?.

Also, the same with the old line to Prologis Park in Coventry, you could be forgiven for thinking that a railway didn't exist as that is way overgrown now, apart from when it runs under Lythalls Lane.

Will there be any future for these 2 sidings and lines or will they end up being taken up?.

Cheers

James

 

[PHILIPE]

On a trip to LMS last week, passing the abandoned siding at Bedworth Oil Terminal, they looked really run down and nature is beginning to reclaim the railway part of the terminal. Looks quite surreal considering a decade ago it received at least 4 trains per week (Monday from Port Clarence, Tuesday and Thursday from Humber and Friday usually from Robeston), then dropping to an "as required" when Puma Energy took over, and the flow went over to GBRf.

I don't know much about oil distribution, or the industry as a whole, but does anyone know why Bedworth stopped receiving deliveries by rail?, or was it just a case of Puma concentrating on their main flows from Robeston/Immingham - Theale and Westerleigh?.

Also, the same with the old line to Prologis Park in Coventry, you could be forgiven for thinking that a railway didn't exist as that is way overgrown now, apart from when it runs under Lythalls Lane.

Will there be any future for these 2 sidings and lines or will they end up being taken up?.

Cheers

James

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[The Planner]

Prologis will probably sit there and rot as will Bedworth, until someone decides at some point the S&C maintenance is an issue. Bedworth was a pain due to the splitting and joining involved.

 

[Ianno87]

Prologis will probably sit there and rot as will Bedworth, until someone decides at some point the S&C maintenance is an issue. Bedworth was a pain due to the splitting and joining involved.

ISTR that the gradients on the Prologis branch also required splitting of the old water train that ran some years back?

 

[P Binnersley]

The Bedworth (Murco) sidings are currently preventing making the Coventry-Nuneaton line two trains per hour. The sidings are out of use, but not officially closed, and the terminal could in theory be brought back into use. The shunting blocks both lines (sidings on down side, connection on up line) and the trains have to be split into the sidings.

 

[BantamMenace]

I think they’ll be cut off when the line is electrified and resignalled. As to whether that is 3 years or 30 years away is anyone’s guess.

 

[The Planner]

The Bedworth (Murco) sidings are currently preventing making the Coventry-Nuneaton line two trains per hour. The sidings are out of use, but not officially closed, and the terminal could in theory be brought back into use. The shunting blocks both lines (sidings on down side, connection on up line) and the trains have to be split into the sidings.

No it doesnt, if they did then the new bay at Coventry wouldnt be built and provision for the run round in the sidings.

I think they’ll be cut off when the line is electrified and resignalled. As to whether that is 3 years or 30 years away is anyone’s guess.

It was resignalled in 2009, 30 years is probably about right.

 

[wallan]

The Run Round used to be at Hawksbury Lane before being transfered to Coventry Yard