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3MG, the Mersey multimodal sea/rail/road gateway at Ditton in which the Stobart Group and AHC Westlink are partners, offers direct access to and from the Liverpool branch of the West Coast Main Line, providing routes to the deep sea container ports in the south of England and the Channel Tunnel. The route is cleared to the W10 loading gauge, meaning it can accommodate high-cube 9ft Bin containers on standard intermodal wagons.
3MG has an intermodal terminal, operated by the O'Connor Group. Planned investment will increase the rail capacity, allowing the site to handle up to 16 trains a day in each direction. This is the equivalent of approximately 400,000 LGV movements a year.
Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) was one of the first new-generation inland multimodal hubs to be created from scratch in the post-Channel Tunnel era. Development since the original build has included investment by the Malcolm Group which provides a dedicated point-to-point trunk service to its warehousing and allows a separate area of intermodal handling operated by itself for its own requirements.
The terminal is operated on an open-access basis and receives rail freight services from Direct Rail Services, ENS, Freightliner and GB Railfreight. DIRFT is a receipt and dispatch point of trunk rail flows from both the Channel Tunnel and the port of Felixstowe, in addition to being an access point for customers using UK wagonload services.