Bulk trucking firms use to bring freight to the old coal loading facility in Rugby, England, today trains run in and out of the old coal yard delivering goods to supermarkets in Scotland. The old coal yard was transformed into a rail freight terminal that currently services one train per day, but plans are on the drafting board to increase the amount of trains running through the Rugby Terminal to as many as three trains per day. If designers are able to complete the job of increasing the capacity of this rail terminal to handle up to three trains per day the Rugby Terminal should be able to handle about 50,000 containers per day. No firm dates have been given for any additional transformation to the Rugby Terminal to help increase the capacity to about three trains per day.
All around the world humans are trying to find ways to make use of things that we would normally just throw away or tear down, rather than find away to recycle or reuse something that still has value and usefulness, as long as we use a little innovation and elbow grease. The transformation of the old rail yard in Rugby into a container transport terminal is one example of a new way of thinking in both the United Kingdom and the rail freight carrier industry as a whole. The freight industry of Britain deserves a pat on the back for making use of an asset that normally would have been ignored.
In the future we’ll be seeing a lot more use of assets that in better times might have been ignored or left to rot, such as the old coal yard in Rugby. In fact, expect to see assets in the United States that normally would have been forgotten, used in innovative ways such as this in the future.
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