UK: Tarmac has opened an aggregates materials depot on a previously unused rail-served site in Rugby which it has leased from Network Rail.
Construction materials will be transported to Rugby by rail before being distributed locally by road, as part of Tarmac’s wider strategy to increase the use of rail in its logistics operations.
‘We are proud to be opening our new Rugby depot and putting a disused rail site back into action’, said Chris Swan, Head of Rail at Tarmac, on September 29. ‘By bringing materials directly into the town, we can reduce the need for long road journeys and provide a more efficient service for our customers.’
Gregory March, Freight Business Development Manager at Network Rail, said ‘bringing disused commercial freight sites back into use is critical to our collective mission to grow rail freight in the short, medium and long term future. I’m delighted to have worked closely with Tarmac and collaboratively with industry colleagues to make the site at Rugby a productive commercial freight reality again.’
