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SubscribeFreight Although coal traffic continues to decline, the English Welsh and Scottish Railway is energetically pursuing other opportunities. The success of trial consignments of spun-iron water pipes from Stanton to the south-west last year encouraged Stanton Bonna plc to apply for planning permission to modify their long-disused sidings to facilitate future traffic. The branch wrote to Erewash Borough Council in support. The fitting of flue gas desulphurisation equipment to coal-fired power stations at Drax in Yorkshire and Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire created a large transport demand for the limestone raw material from Derbyshire quarries, and also for the desulphogypsum by-product to plasterboard factories that previously relied on mined or quarried gypsum. The branch wrote to the County Council urging that rail transport should be used to carry desulphogypsum from Ratcliffe to the nearby British Gypsum works at Hotchley Hill, East Leake, but road improvements for lorries were carried out instead. In a surprise development, Railtrack and the Great Central Railway Northern Development Association are now jointly rehabilitating the derelict track from the main line junction at Loughborough to Hotchley Hill to allow possible use for freight.
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