• Half-price rail costs have prompted National Power to step
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up the volume of aggregate it carries on its own trains, By the year's end the energy generator will use Five more of its own locomotives to pull eight million tonnes of coal a year from the Trent coalfields. This will add to its pioneering in-house rail service that already carries limestone into the Drax power station.
The move highlights the threat a liberalised rail freight industry might present to road haulage. By dumping British Rail and using its own trains National Power can halve its rail costs.These new costs will bring it into line with—or even under cut—the rates offered by hauliers. More companies, including British Nuclear Fuels, are expected to run their own trains. 5o for only National Power and Mendip Rail—a joint venture between ARC and Foster Yeoman—have done so.