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Tesco switching to container trains, away from lorries

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#62 15-11-2012 09:16PM

rainbowdash

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Losty Dublin wrote: »

In other words, it's just back of envelope stuff.

Containers work as the carrier gets them pre loaded with the time consuming loading done off site. To go back to loading them on site means going back to the hey day of stopping goods trains, manual loading and loading at the station site. That worked before vans and lorries were plentiful but it worked as there was not other option; today's transport environment is a different story.

Of course its back of an envelope, its the internet:rolleyes:

But nowhere has anybody suggested filling containers on site Irish Rails yard either, that would be done in factories / recycling depots and warehouse

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