“We’re really very pleased to have secured this location. It will help reduce emissions and save costs in terms of running several hundred empty miles each week in order to get our wagons serviced. It will also reduce congestion elsewhere along our routes and assist with timetabling flexibility, improving performance overall. It’s a real bonus for us.”Guy Bates, Head of Freight Development at Network Rail added:
“The re-opening of March by GBRf to support their growing freight traffic operation is a very satisfying development. Recognising its location on a rail freight corridor of national significance, we took the decision to include this site in our 2014 freight estate acquisition portfolio in the clear anticipation that it would have future utility. Successive Governments have shared an ambition to grow freight on rail substantially and our facilitating of this type of market led development of our freight estate is critical to realising that growth.”