There are ebbs and flows. No doubt when the Power Court football stadium gets underway that the proximity of the siding will come into play.
Power Court will require very very little in the way of the sort of material that is delivered - or has so far been delivered - to Crescent Road. That does not rule out Crescent Road being so used for traffic, but it won't be the same traffic. Power Court is a building requiring steel, concrete and maybe bricks; Crescent Road is primarily aggregate for road and similar construction - Power Court site is already cleared, and road access is already in place including some of the internals. I can't see that any road works there will require more than a couple of load dumps of 8x4 road trucks. It might need a lot of cement, but if that comes by rail that needs kit that ain't there at the moment.
Longer trains can serve Limbury Road , Crescent Road was programmed to have the mechanical ground frame replaced by “ electric switch panel” ( push button ground frame) to allow longer formations to set back off up slow following renewal of ironwork, but this has not taken place so lots of splitting wagons to unload which results in some interesting moves with loco ending up sandwiched between wagons due to the restriction in length of the head shunt
Limbury is up to load 26 now on most arrivals.
Thanks!
I was wondering what had happened to the GF replacement - ISTR you mentioned it once a while back on a certain other forum.
The shunting with loco mid train is something I often saw from my flat.
Yes, Crescent Road has been in use by Tarmac. Back in February / March I noticed it had DB-hauled trains from Mountsorrel while Freightliner were operating from Tunstead.
For as long as the respective FOCs have delivered to Crescent Road there has been a good mix of DB and FL, and both come and go in phases and GBRF too at times (although with the latter if there were 66s on hire(???) from GBRF then they might not have been GBRF operated trains).
Looking at the constantly changing virtual quarry piles over the years, it has been different aggregate presumably for different works for different civils contracts which in turn implies from different quarries, and not limited to stone, there used to be a lot of sand to, and no doubt each flow is bid / won / lost by each FOC.
Certainly constant never changing flow it is not.
Am I right reading upthread suggested Crescent had cement traffic ? Overlooking the sdgs I can't remember ever seeing cement wagons or cement loads or, in the road, road trucks with cement to/from the yard.
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When I first moved here, Crescent Road rail traffic was carflats and a single 25. We then had a phase of recessing engineers ballast trains for several days at a time, with 2x20 the usual power.
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I've also remembered now we had Redland self discharge trains too - did these always operate from Mountsorrel or did they load them at other quarries too. Not too sure of the full story, but Luton BC had a hand in at least asking the self discharge train not to be used in Crescent Road yard as it generated one significant amount of dust in turn complaints. Before any one posts it, when those trains ceased here, this was way way before the incident that cause those trains withdrawal, they must have ceased using Crescent Road 4-5 or maybe more years before that.
