Canal waters potential
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A CM FEATURE (August 1) referred to the South Yorkshire Canal Improvement Scheme's potential traffic as 1.7m tonnes annually and we asked the British Waterways Board whether there is an intermodal aspect to this scheme and where this traffic is expected to come from.
CM has since been told by the BWB that marketing strategy includes intermodal traffic, and Section 8 grants have given a substantial boost to this policy.
Freight stations are being established whereby traffic can be hauled by road or rail from the North, Midlands, Lancashire and surrounding districts to the waterway for export via the Humber ports.
"The identified traffic of 1.7m tonnes," says the BWB, includes oil, steel, ash and aggregates. This figure could well be more than doubled by the domestic carriage of minestone waste in the not too distant future."
The South Yorkshire Canal, with connecting waterways, penetrates 59km inland from Goole on the River Ouse to Rotherham.