Does anyone know what freight traffic is currently running to Fort William. I am wondering if the aluminium traffic has altered with the closure of the Alcan plant in Northumberland?
There are daily paths for the Alcans trains - loaded going north and empties returning south.
There is a weekly oil train that runs north on Wednesdays and returns empty on ?which day (ran recently on a Friday).
There is currently no timber traffic.
It remains to be seen whether the facility at Corpach will once again generate a freight flow. There is a massive flow of timber in and out of there, brought by sea/road. It was rail-connected when the paper mill was there.
Didn't some of the timber traffic come from Crianlarich also?
Yes. There is also, I think, some munitions traffic from Glen Douglas.
Didn't some of the timer traffic come from Crianlarich also?