Stobart is at Lokeren

http://www.eddiestobart.co.uk/Servic...pe/Lokeren.php

safeway by rail 7.aug.2000 Mossend to Invernes to georgemas + 28 may 2000 at georgmas junction

Are they still using rail?

Supermarket giant Morrison have decided not to use rail to Inverness, having acquired Safeway last year. (26.09.05)

Tesco uses rail to Inverness

http://www.roadtransport.com/Article...t-service.html

The Scottish Executive have awarded £200k to Eddie Stobart to move 26 Tesco containers per day from Daventry to Coatbridge. The DfT are also contributing £235k. Haulage will be provided by DRS. (26.04.06)

heavy susidised .

With ASDA proposing to open in Thurso, and Tesco committed to Wick, hopes rise for a return to rail for retail goods. (03.02.06)


http://www.highlandrail.org/news-freight.htm

Tesco sends one train per day from Daventry to Grange-mouth, five days a week, Tesco freight is loaded on the northbound journey and then a mix of Tesco and other customers' products for the return leg.

From a newspaper regarding rail freight

http://www.northern-times.co.uk/news...h_to_rail.html

Round and round . . .
First almost everything was sent by rail (1950s) then again in the 1990s then it stopped and now they're trying to get it back onto rail.

Tesco's Wick and Thurso loads are picked up at Livingston near Edinburgh

Written a few years ago

http://www.freightonrail.org.uk/Case...permarkets.htm

From 2008

http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business...1140-22447172/

New Tesco distribution centre in Middlesbrough will take more than 12,000 lorry journeys off the road each year.

http://www.retail-week.com/News/2009...brough_dc.html

supermarket lorries
 

I seem to remember the news saying that supermarket trucks do the equivelent mileage each day as two trips to the moon and back each day.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3545245.stm

Bring back the Arkwrights of this World (though I suppose they would be Patels nowadays . . . )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkwright_(Open_All_Hours)