Gypsum by rail
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• Trainload Freight has won a major victory against road haulage: the BR subsidiary was awarded a new 700,000 tonnes a year contract with British Gypsum last week.
The 10-year deal will be transferred to Trainload Freight's successors once the company is sold off and will provide some comfort to BR's bulk materials freight business in the face of dwindling coal movements.
Until the contract goes into full swing, some of the movement between the Drax power station in Nottinghamshire and Mountfield in East Sussex will be carried by British Gypsumoperated vehicles.
The first train of desulphogypsum will leave Drax this week: over the next two years the frequency will grow to 10-12 trains a week.
The flow of desulphogypsum from the National Power site is a new movement resulting from the new flue gas desulphurisation process which reduced sulphur dioxide emissions from the plant. Trainload Freight already carries limestone to Drax.