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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by owlsroost Hugh Jampton/Townsend, Out of interest, as we don't get any coal trains anywhere near my area (East Anglia), what's the proportion of trains formed from 2-axle and 4-axle wagons in your areas ? Last time I was in the Doncaster/Barnetby/Knottingley area, from memory it was almost all EWS and Freightliner 4-axle hoppers (in the rain....) Tony [/quote] I live in Doncaster but work in Leeds for Network Rail and sometimes have to go to Scotland. In the Doncaster area coal trains were nearly all 4 axle trains upto early this year or so. Now i frequently see trains coming from Sheffield and the south heading to the Humber formed of 2 axle wagons. From my office in Leeds i can see the west end of Leeds station and Whithall curve which a lot of Anglo Scottish coal trains use are all 4 axle wagon trains. I recently passed Hunterstone High Level coal terminal in Scotland which had one coal train ready to depart, one loading and one empty ready to load and they were all 2 axle coal trains. They may have been heading for Longanet or Cockenzie power stations in Scotland, so would not have been going that far.
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