How road-rail vehicle helps longer aggregates train serve freight terminal

Rail road vehilcle helps out

Date: 21 October 2025

DCRail has launched a new flow and celebrated carrying one million tonnes on an existing route in the same week.The freight operator ran its first services from Peak Forest to Rory J Holbrook’s new terminal at Snetterton railhead in Norfolk on September 23, a nine and a half-hour journey that went via Chesterfield, Toton and Peterborough.

The material, from Cemex’s Dove Holes Quarry, will complement an existing service that runs to Brandon in Suffolk, and it’s hoped the service will get to three trains a week across the two sites.Snetterton Railhead has traditionally been restricted to taking 16-wagon trains due to the length of the run round loop near Eccles Road station.However, the use of a Unimog road-rail vehicle has helped DCRail take 22 wagons.The Unimog takes six wagons in two convoys of three to the terminal before they are unloaded while DCRail’s locomotive propels the remaining 16 along the short branch.


David Fletcher, Director Rail Car Cappagh, which owns DCRail, said the development “changes the economics” of serving the site.The next day the millionth tonne was loaded at Tytherington Quarry in Gloucestershire bound for Quainton Railhead and construction of HS2.DCRail 60046 approaches Blackgrove Road hauling the 0953 Quainton Railhead-Tytherington Quarry on September 25. The inbound service had carried the millionth tonne on the route. DCRAIL.

The flow has been running for 23 months.Fletcher said: “This is significant for us as a smaller operator.”While aggregates traffic has decreased 2% year-on-year in the latest Office of Rail and Road freight usage report for April-June 2025, DCRail has reported a 21% increase over that period.

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