YORK COAL CONCENTRATION DEPOT OPENED T HE Hargreaves Group of companies,
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which owns 600 road vehicles, has, through one of its subsidiaries, established a fully mechanized, push-button coal depot at Layerthorpe, York, adjacent to a private line which is still operating—the Derwent Valley Light Railway.
The depot will serve customers through a road fleet within a 16-mile radius of H10 York. More than 40,000 tons of coal will pass through the new depot each year, and will initially be brought by British Railways from the Yorkshire coal fields about 30 miles away, and then over a linking line to the Derwent Valley branch.
The sack filling control at the new depot, which is of push-button design, enables sacks of coal to be filled at knee level at a rate of 1 cwt. every five seconds, and then transferred direct to delivery lorries.
Mr. Geoffrey Lavers, managing director of the Hargreaves Group said recently that, in the past, solid fuels went from so many points to so many railwaystations that they applauded the idea a concentration of coal traffics.