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Freight flows can vary - however this is a very quick stab (and feel free to add). As one poster said - check Freightmaster. Oil - Refineries - Immingham, Jarrow, Fawley, Grangemouth, Robeston to various places. Some is moved as locomotive fuel to depots; bitumen (Fawley - Plymouth); Avaiation fuel (Colnbrook) etc. Various depots recieving are Langley, Colnbrook, Westerleigh, Linkswood, Plymouth etc. etc etc. Coal - the amount of deep mine pits in the UK is dwindling with the major fields of South Wales and Yorkshire basically wiped out. However Strip/ Open Cast is doing a healthy trade. However there is enough coal in the UK (reserve) for about 300years so that will get used when the giants have strip mined the rest - thats if we have a planet left. Most of the ocal is imported from the Ports such as Hunterston, Immingham and Hull. There is a little thru the smaller ports as well such as Ellesmere Port and heads for the power stations. These are subject to EU regulation on Greenhouse Gas emissions and the scrubbing equipment required is very expensive so watch for a few closures in yeasr to come. However the country may shut down this winter which leads to the question of WHY? Still the major stations are at Drax, Ferrybridge and Eggborough. Ratcliffe, Cockenzie, Uskmouth (Fifoots) and Aberthaw to name but a few. They source from domestic and the ports. Pits remaining - Tower (S. Wales); Maltby, Rossington, Thoresby, Welbeck etc etc. There are many open cast pits around and this has become a handy source of traffic for the freight operators. Metals - yee haaa. Corus traffic from Scunny, Workington (to cease), Corby, Llanwern, Trostre, Dee Marsh, Rotherham and various other places. Bomb Trains - Nuclear Flask traffic. May increase but famous are amongst others Sellafield, Dungeness (strange and eerie place), Sizewell (Leiston); Bridgwater (cant remember the name of the place). There is also residual traffic to and from military bases. Ministry of Defence Traffic - containerised, or tanks on flats. From Longtown to Bicester, Ludgershall with Didcot the main point. There are irregular flows to various other locations in the UK. Stone - A Vast and Big Cash Earner. The Mendip Quarries (Merehead); The Peaks (Tunstead) and Leicestershire (Mountsorrel) to various places. There is also Imported stuff. Too numerous to mention. Donkeys loads and lots of trains. Best place to Ned? Hmm. Leicester prerhaps. Intermodal/ Swapbodies/ Containers - from the ports to various locations. The biggest port for this is Felixstowe I would reckon and then there is Southampton and there are flows to and from the Chunnel as well. Manchester Trafford Park to Dollandsa Moor is one. Thamesport, Tilbury are used as well. Port capacity is basically reaching a peak in the UK so something must be done to help allieviate the congestion. Ironically the second deepest "deep water" port in the UK is not used at all. The name of that port...Falmouth. There are internal container flows as mentioned above, Daventry being the growth centre for this part of the logistics chain. China Clay - internal in my home county. And this traffic is slowly dying. This is due to the quality of the clay now being 50/50 split with sand. As a result it is cheaper to strip mine the Amazon and sod the Parrots. However there are various grades of clay (used in paper and the pharmaceutical industry) and 90% of the worlds Ball Clay reserve sits in the Bovey Basin. Untouched and a potential source of future traffic. There are other traffics of course - Automotive (Bridgend/ Dagenham/ Garston etc.), Gypsum, Timber (Carlisle - Chirk), Chemicals. That is a very brief overview.
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