26-542: Stobart Rail may refer to: Stobart Rail Freight , a railway freight service operator in the United Kingdom XYZ Rail & Civils , (formerly Stobart Rail & Civils), a railway maintenance and infrastructure engineering company in the United Kingdom See also [ edit ] Eddie Stobart Group Esken Topics referred to by
52-522: A 840,000 sq ft (78,000 m ) grocery distribution centre in 2011, constructed by VolkerFitzpatrick (main contractor), construction work was completed in September 2011. As part of the development, a rail tunnel was built under the A5 road to connect DIRFTII to the rail network via the original DIRFT railport. A further 7.5 million sq.ft. extension, DIRFTIII, was proposed for construction on
78-674: A division of the German state owned railway company Deutsche Bahn , in the place of DRS. On 30 October 2009, Stobart commenced a weekly international train service, operated via DB Schenker. Covering a 1,100 miles (1,800 km) distance, it span from Valencia, Spain to the Ripple Lane intermodal depot in Dagenham , East London , via the Eurotunnel . The fully refrigerated goods service, which provided an alternative to lorries for
104-554: A three-year deal to deliver cross-border goods for the British retailer Tesco . The service was initially operated by Direct Rail Services (DRS), which provided both the locomotives and traincrew; Stobart supplied the shipping container and depot facilities. During February 2008, Stobart Rail commenced operating passenger charter services under the Stobart Pullman brand, using rolling stock leased from DRS. Five months later,
130-611: Is comparable with a lorry, although the whole process takes slightly longer because of additional loading and unloading. Over the three-year timespan, it was estimated that the Tesco freight service will replace 130,000 lorry journeys and save three million road miles per year. Stobart received £400,000 from the UK Government and the Scottish Executive to encourage and part-finance the switch from road to rail. The train
156-529: Is designed to have all facilities rail connected, the first occupier of DIRFTII was Tesco , whose distribution centre reached completion in late 2011. Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal is part of a land development project undertaken by Severn Trent Water on a 430 acres (174 ha) site near Crick in Northamptonshire. The location, at junction 18 of the M1 motorway in close proximity to
182-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stobart Rail Freight Stobart Rail Freight Ltd (trading as Stobart Rail ) was a railway freight service operator in the United Kingdom . It came under the Rail division of Eddie Stobart Logistics , and carried intermodal freight for the group. On 19 September 2006, Stobart Rail launched its inaugural daily freight service for
208-664: Is located at the junctions between the M1 motorway , A5 and A428 roads , 4 miles (6 km) east of Rugby and 6 miles (10 km) north of Daventry ; it has a rail connection from the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line . The original development of approximately 300 acres (120 ha) was built during the 1990s. of which only DIRFT South ( DIRFT Railport ) had a direct rail connection. An extension, often referred to as DIRFTII , of about 130 acres (54 ha) received planning permission in 2005, and
234-571: The A5 , A14 and M6 roads had been identified as early as 1978 as a "motorway orientated growth point". The ground area of the original DIRFT development is divided into three sections: DIRFT Central 40 acres (16 ha), DIRFT East 130 acres (53 ha), and DIRFT South 140 acres (55 ha) by the A5 and A428 roads. The site first became operational on 27 May 1997, and was officially opened in November 1997 by Anne, Princess Royal , at inception
260-412: The Eurotunnel once per week. By 2013, Stobart's rail hub at Widnes was handling five trains per day on behalf of clients such as Matalan , Littlewoods , B&Q , Comet , and Guinness . During September 2018, Stobart announced the launch of a new train service between the port of Tilbury and Daventry , hauled by DRS. On 19 September 2006, Stobart Rail commenced a daily delivery train on behalf of
286-524: The Grangemouth Rail terminal in Scotland . On the return journey to Rugby, roughly 90% of its capacity would typically be filled by Tesco while the remaining 10% would be occupied by Coca-Cola ; one train could convey the equivalent of 26 lorries in each direction each day. Stobart Rail had reportedly invested £5.5 million into this inaugural rail freight service. The company had arranged for
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#1732786634277312-576: The West Coast Main Line . During September 2018, Stobart announced the launch of a new train service hauled by DRS. This Stobart-branded train ran three days per week between the port of Tilbury and Daventry , as well as twice weekly between Daventry and Mossend. Daventry International Railfreight Terminal Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) is a rail-road intermodal freight terminal with an associated warehousing estate in Northamptonshire , England. The facility
338-521: The British retailer Tesco under a three-year arrangement to transport goods by rail, this service switched 70 per cent of its retailer's cross-border traffic from road to rail. Ran daily, these trains collected Tesco products that had been separately transported from various sites around the Midlands to the company's depot at Daventry International Railfreight Terminal (DIRFT) in Rugby , hauling them to
364-595: The Stobart Pullman in July 2008. During May 2008, Stobart announced that a second contract had been awarded from Tesco for the haulage of goods by rail between Grangemouth and Inverness . Services under this contract, which was valued at £15 million and covered a five-year period, started in September of that year. The Daventry – Scotland Stobart contract transferred to DB Schenker in January 2010, along with
390-497: The Stobart Pullman permanently ceased operations. During May 2008, Stobart announced that a second contract had been awarded by Tesco. During August 2009, it was announced that Stobart had transferred the operation of its rail operations to DB Schenker ; two months later, it launched the longest train journey in Europe by a single operator, covering 1,100 miles (1,800 km) between Valencia, Spain and Dagenham , East London , via
416-863: The earliest post- Channel Tunnel road-rail intermodal terminals – the site includes rail connected terminals and traditional warehousing was designed to act as a regional node for rail freight flows to and from the Port of Felixstowe and the Channel Tunnel, it forms part of the UK network of the Trans-European Combined Transport network . The site was primarily developed by Severn Trent Property , part of Severn Trent Water . Early occupiers included Royal Mail , Tesco ('Fastway RDC' operated by DHL ) (closed 2009), and Mothercare . In 2004, 74 acres (30 ha) of undeveloped land on
442-401: The facility included a 475,000 square feet (44,100 m ) warehouse operated for road haulage operator Eddie Stobart . The rail connected terminal was operated by Tibbett and Britten ; construction of a 210,000 sq ft (20,000 m ) rail connected warehouse was started in 1998, a second 265,000 sq ft (24,600 m ) facility was constructed in 2000. DIRFT was one of
468-473: The former Rugby radio station site to the northwest of the current development. The proposal also included a large area 170 acres (70 ha) of green space, named Lilbourne Meadows . The development is a joint venture between ProLogis and Rugby Radio Station Limited Partnership (RRSLP) ( BT and Aviva ). The DIRFTIII site would also be rail connected, with over 7,500,000 sq ft (700,000 m ) of warehousing over 400 acres (163 ha) of land plus
494-470: The import of fresh Spanish salad-vegetables, was the longest train journey in Europe by a single operator at the time. On 4 January 2010, a freight train hauling container flats from Inverness to Mossend , hauled by DB Schenker on behalf of Stobart Rail, derailed at Carrbridge amid snowy weather , temporarily blocking the Highland Main Line . The accident result in no deaths, but two of
520-438: The onward daily service to Inverness, though this reverted to DRS operation in summer 2011. In May 2008, Stobart's chief executive Andrew Tinkler announced that the company was in the advanced stages of planning for an additional six train-based services, not counting the existing freight contracts with Tesco. During August 2009, it was announced that Stobart had transferred the operation of its rail operations to DB Schenker ,
546-523: The operator of the railport at DIRFT. In 2005 planning permission was granted for a rail connected 130 acres (54 ha) westward expansion of the original site with a built ground area of over 1,900,000 sq ft (180,000 m ). The DIRFTII expansion was designed for rail connected warehousing allowing transfer between sea or Channel Tunnel-borne rail-freight and road transport or warehouse storage. Plans included facilities for containerised and side-loaded palletised rail freight. Tesco acquired
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#1732786634277572-472: The provision of Class 66 locomotives to be both supplied and manned by Direct Rail Services (DRS) to haul its services. Each train consisted of 26 specially designed 45 feet (14 m) curtain-sided shipping containers , which at 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) in height are within the UK loading gauge ; Stobart purchased 90 of these new containers to provide this service. The train travels at an average speed of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), which
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624-523: The site with a capacity for 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m ) of warehousing was sold to a joint venture between British Land / Rosemound joint venture, British Land subsequently let its holding to several customers including a 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m ) warehouse let to Tesco in 2005. Severn Trent plc sold its holding in DIRFT, as well as the 130 acres (53 ha) DIRFT II site to Prologis in 2006. In 2008 Malcolm Rail became
650-403: The train crew were injuring. During 2013, Stobart announced plans to develop a inland container port at Widnes, creating as many as 10,000 new jobs; by this point, its existing rail hub at Widnes currently handled five trains per day on behalf of various clients, including Matalan , Littlewoods , B&Q , Comet , and Guinness , but had capacity for as many as 12 daily deliveries by rail via
676-541: Was marked in Tesco corporate colours. Stobart had previously transported some of its freight by rail, using Stobart-liveried IWB Ferrywagons hired from Tiphook . During February 2008, Stobart Rail commenced operating passenger charter services under the Stobart Pullman brand, having purchased Hertfordshire Rail Tours from the administrator of FM Rail . Both the motive power and a set of Mark 3 carriages were leased from DRS. However, after only five months of operation, Stobart Group permanently ceased operations of
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