The Ironbridge Line in Telford.

[AlanL]

The Ironbridge line will be reopening for freight in the future (to remove huge amounts of waste from the demolished power station) as it's a part of the planning application from the Harworth group which will be building over 1,000 homes and associated community facilities (shops/school/etc) on the site. The planning application specifically states that the waste should be removed by rail.

 

[headshot119]

The Ironbridge line will be reopening for freight in the future (to remove huge amounts of waste from the demolished power station) as it's a part of the planning application from the Harworth group which will be building over 1,000 homes and associated community facilities (shops/school/etc) on the site. The planning application specifically states that the waste should be removed by rail.

The developer of the housing estate will then find this too difficult, it'll all go out by road, and the local planning department won't do anything about it.

 

[zwk500]

The Ironbridge line will be reopening for freight in the future (to remove huge amounts of waste from the demolished power station) as it's a part of the planning application from the Harworth group which will be building over 1,000 homes and associated community facilities (shops/school/etc) on the site. The planning application specifically states that the waste should be removed by rail.

Things written in planning applications change/get ignored quite readily when desired. In the village where I grew up a patch of land got sold for development with a condition to maintain c.10 mature trees as part of a development of 9 houses. There is now 0 mature trees and 10 houses on that land.

 

[Jacob Porrett]

Madeley Staffordshire

Makes more sense then coming through Telford lol.

 

[Jacob Porrett]

The line block has now finished so what ever they were doing has now been completed.

 

[dayglorob]

Any idea what net load of stone they could remove per train. Ive read that the power station had up to 6000t of coal delivered daily, but its unclear if thats one train or multiple trains.
Network rail have or are going to make a listed building application but theres nothing I can find on Shropshires Planning portal as yet.

A major project to re enforce the ALBERT EDward Bridge commences this autumn. Expected to take 12 months. I understand in readiness to allow use of the bridge again for rail traffic.

Can you point me to your source on this engineering project, thanks

 

[dayglorob]

Any idea what net load of stone they could remove per train. Ive read that the power station had up to 6000t of coal delivered daily, but its unclear if thats one train or multiple trains.
Network rail have or are going to make a listed building application but theres nothing I can find on Shropshires Planning portal as yet.

Can you point me to your source on this engineering project, thanks

Apparently the bridge was in close to poor condition in 2014. https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/bridges/overview/?ELR=MJI2&RID=2

 

[Bald Rick]

Any idea what net load of stone they could remove per train. Ive read that the power station had up to 6000t of coal delivered daily, but it’s unclear if thats one train or multiple trains.

Typical payload of around 1000t per train.

 

[yorkie]

Just a reminder that we do ask that any posts of a speculative nature are posted in the Speculative Discussion forum please

I have therefore moved some posts to the following thread:

Could The Ironbridge Line in Telford become a light rail/tram route?

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-ironbridge-line-in-telford.237182/ Wouldn't this be better turned into a light trail/tram system rather than heavy rail? It would be a good starting point for a small tram system covering the Telford area in general...

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[8A Rail]

Apparently the bridge was in close to poor condition in 2014. https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/bridges/overview/?ELR=MJI2&RID=2

No it was not! Biomass trains continued into the Power Station until closure in November 2015. Also I am sure a couple of other trains operated on the line afterwards too - in 2016?

 

[william.martin]

Madeley Staffordshire

That one even caught me out, as a local to Telford

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It'll never come back now unfortunately. They've been working on the branch at Madeley on preparation for HS2. HS2 will cross where the silverdale branch crosses the wcml

I regularly walk under that bridge and trust me, it would collapse to an average sized cat walking over it, a train would go right through and end up in Bristol (well, that's if the Severn is fairly full.)
@Jacob Porrett you know what I mean

 

[Jacob Porrett]

No it was not! Biomass trains continued into the Power Station until closure in November 2015. Also I am sure a couple of other trains operated on the line afterwards too - in 2016?

In 2019 Clun Castle went on the Ironbridge line on a Rail tour which I believe has been the last train to use the line for a good number of years now. Not aware of anything else using it since then.

It would be good to see the line in use again at some point to service Ironbridge/Colport Dale.

 

[william.martin]

In 2019 Clun Castle went on the Ironbridge line on a Rail tour which I believe has been the last train to use the line for a good number of years now. Not aware of anything else using it since then.

I can confirm that nothing has gone up there since Clun Castle.

Also I am sure a couple of other trains operated on the line afterwards too - in 2016?

I saw a 60 (the usual) go up there in 2016.

 

[Sparks87]

Lots of work undertaken at Madeley Junction the last few weeks with the trackwork/points having been revamped. Also what appears to be drainage works along the Ironbridge Branch.

Strethill Road Crossing in Ironbridge has also had a lot of work undertaken.

So hopefully within the near future the line will see trains again.