1 /2m in grants
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aid roil sidings
AN FOWLER, Minister of rt, has agreed £496,000 grants 'reight facilities under Section 8 ailways Act 1974. These grants lure that some 670,000 tonnes ht per year will be carried by rail of by road.
irojects are:
I Rowland and Co Ltd who will £86,000 toward improvement of pany's private sidings at Tyseley, ham. Without grant scrap metal a carried by road to steel works in orkshire. The project will provide nental benefits for parts of inner lam, Derby and Sheffield, says the lent of Transport.
ight & Wilson Ltd are to get )0 toward the cost of renewing rail n facilities at the firm's Oldbury 3irmingharn. The grant will ensure that -substantial tonnages" of chemicals, including chlorine, from Merseyside will be carried by rail instead of by heavy lorries.
British Transport Docks Baord get £289,000 toward the cost of new rail reception facilities at the Port of Garston, Merseyside. The project forms part of a scheme to modernise the shipping of domestic coal to Northern Ireland, Eire and the lsel of Man. The grant, will secure on rail most of the coal passing through the port. As a result, about 100 return lorry journeys a day needed to transport the coal by road will be avoided. ''The environmental effects would have been particularly severe on the busy urban approaches to the port. There MI also be benefits to local roads leading from supplying collieries in many parts of the East Midlands and on routes across the Pennines,according to the Department.