Conway loads up Tilbury aggregates trains
Loaded train at Tilbury (Forth Ports)
Aggregates movers FM Conway are to run a second weekly flow from Forth Ports Tilbury to their operations base at Theale near Reading. The trains will cut out a convoy of road trucks making a one hundred mile journey (160km) around the congested London motorway network.
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This new traffic does not use the proposed CMAT terminal in Tilbury2 which is not completed and construction appears to have been halted/paused. The accompanying photos show the aggregates being loaded on to the train at the former Freightliner Container site within the main Tilbury Docks, not in the new terminal.