----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Any Freight Boats spotted this year on Englands Canals?
> On Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:42 AM [GMT+1=CET], > trainfinder22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Snip > > There are growing prospects for short-haul traffic. In London, the part of > the system I know best, a traffic in ballast from a gravel pit in Denham to > a cement works in West Drayton has been extablished for about three years. > A large recycling works is being built at Old Oak Common in West London, > with its own new wharf so that traffic can come by water. And the planning > permission for the site is such that a significant amount of their traffic > will have to be by water. Snip > Mike Stevens Hi Mike, With regards to the above planning permission I hope it is better than the one we got in Warrington. A large warehousing firm was allowed to build on an inappropriate site because they said that incoming stock deliveries would largely be by rail. After opening they had one train of spaghetti from Italy every year until their tie to the council grant expired. The siding was then removed. Dave Croft
