Post by Madhatter on Sept 27, 2006 22:49:34 GMT
Birmingham Intermodal freight Depot
Whats this got to do with Atherstone you may ask?
Well, Thats more or less were it really is. Its the name thats apparentlly been given to the new railfreight terminal at BIRCH COPPICE Business Park.
Birch Coppice Business Park is connected to the main UK railway infrastructure and to Europe via the Channel Tunnel. The site has its own rail sidings and the facility to provide dedicated rail access to several development plots.
TNT Logistics has taken a massive 733,000sq ft (68,095sq m) £30 million rail served distribution facility standing on a 40 acre (16 ha) rail served plot.The facility receives daily consignments of automotive components for Volkswagen United Kingdom Limited by rail direct from Germany via the Channel Tunnel.
Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal operated by Roadways Container Logistics is designed to handle up to 8 containerised rail consignments per day from UK docks such as Southampton.
I can't see many locals being happy with a site in North Warwickshire being called Birmingham. I fail to see what it's got to do with Birmingham.
www.birchcoppice.co.uk/images/site.jpg
press releases
31/01/2006
LAYING OF NEW RAILWAY TRACK FOR FREIGHT TERMINAL SHOULD EASE REGION`S INCREASING ROAD CONGESTION
The West Midland's railway infrastructure has been increased by several miles with the building of a rail freight terminal which will help reduce road congestion caused by heavy goods vehicles using the region's motorways and roads.
The construction of a £multi - million freight terminal covering an area the size of 13 football pitches at Birch Coppice Business Park near junction 10 of the M42 motorway will act as an inland railhead receiving incoming containerised goods from UK ports such as Southampton. The facility will also handle outgoing containerised freight for exporting companies in the area.
Britain's consumer appetite for imported goods from the Far East and China has seen an increase in deep sea containerised freight by almost 10% in recent years. New high volume container terminals to be built on the Thames and at Harwich will relieve other ports currently operating at near full capacity.
To reduce the reliance on road haulage, containers will be transported by rail to inland facilities such as at Birch Coppice Business Park which are situated close to huge conurbations. An average freight train removes 50 heavy goods vehicles from roads.
The deal to secure the huge investment was handled by Birmingham based commercial property agents Eagleton & Co. acting on behalf of I M Properties` Birch Coppice Business Park and NAI Fuller Peiser representing the future operator of the Freight terminal.
Five years ago I M Properties the Warwick based owner and developer of the 400 acre Birch Coppice Business Park sunk over £20 million in regeneration of the derelict former British Coal mine site in North Warwickshire. Infrastructure work at the time included the laying of over 5 miles of branch line and sidings to facilitate a huge 40 acre distribution hub for TNT Logistics.
Through the use of rail for automotive components imported from Germany via the Channel Tunnel, TNT reduced lorry journeys by 8,000 per year saving 2 million miles.
This latest capital project to increase rail freight sidings at Birch Coppice Business Park reinforces North Warwickshire's claim to have attracted the first privately funded significant freight railway to the region in over a 100 years.
14/03/2006
MASSIVE CRANE GANTRIES FOR RAIL TERMINAL MAKE 2,000 MILE JOURNEY BY SEA, RIVER AND ROAD TO NORTH WARWICKSHIRE
What is thought to be the largest structures to pass along the A5 trunk road since the heyday of the North Warwickshire Coal Fields have arrived at a former colliery site after a journey of almost 2,000 miles from Finland.
Four huge fabricated steel gantries each 32m (104 ft) long and each weighing 30 tonnes arrived recently at Birch Coppice Business Park near Junction 10 of the M42 motorway, after a journey by sea from Helsinki to the port of Hull in East Yorkshire. From there the bridgelike structures were transhipped to barges for the journey up stream on the River Humber and the River Trent to Flixborough in Lincolnshire. Special road trains each with 22 wheels and front and rear end steering were used on the final 102 miles of the journey via the M18, M1 and M42 motorways to Birch Coppice.
Destined for the construction site of a £19million rail freight terminal at the former Birch Coppice Colliery site the gantries are the main framework of two rail mounted cranes. Each will be capable of lifting 40 tonnes and will be used to unload initially 6 trains per day of containerised goods imported from China and the Far East through Southampton Docks. The expectations in the growth of container traffic into the UK will increase the number of trains arriving at Birch Coppice.
All told 16 other massive loads were delivered over several weeks from Finland to the site in North Warwickshire.
John Willis the site manager at Birch Coppice, once employed as an engine driver of goods trains that served the coal mine two decades ago said "The construction of the rail freight terminal marks another milestone in the regeneration of the area around Dordon. When Birch Coppice Colliery closed in 1987 it employed over 1,000 men. Blue - chip businesses which have relocated to the business park have already generated hundreds of new jobs for local people. Our objective is to reach the 1000 target in the near future."
The North Warwickshire Coal Field once boasted 18 sizeable collieries. Daw Mill Colliery near Atherstone is the only pit in production in the region but mine operator UK Coal has recently announced it may reopen Arley Colliery which closed in 1968.
Birch Coppice recorded its highest coal output of 660,998 tonnes in 1955/56. In the 112 year period between 1875 and the mine closure in 1987 total coal extracted amounted to 60 million tonnes.
Warwick based IM Properties responsible for regenerating the former Birch Coppice mine site has invested over £25 million in transforming a blot on the landscape into a thriving business location. Major distribution logistics firm TNT has recruited 400 employees at its massive 40 acre distribution hub on the park and UPS - the world's largest package delivery company has acquired a 24acre development plot capable of accommodating a 300,000 sq ft building.
The construction of the rail freight terminal will be completed by August this year.
Birmingham property agents Eagleton and Company are responsible for marketing the development plots at Birch Coppice Business Park. It is hoped that a third major logistics occupier will be attracted by the prime location with on site railway facilities alongside the M42 motorway in the heart of central England.
Site History
IM Properties has established an enviable reputation for regenerating brownfield sites into high quality industrial and business parks. With several highly successful examples in the West Midlands ~ including the award winning Junction Six scheme in Birmingham ~ the company's jewel in the crown is undoubtably the 400 acre (161 ha) Birch Coppice Business Park.
Turning Brown to Green
Acquired by IM Properties in 1997 transformation of the former Birch Coppice Colliery site began in 2000. From then on, IM Properties has embarked on a masterplan that will not only turn a brown site into green but will also regenerate vital employment opportunities in the region.
27th March 1987 marked the official closure date of Birch Coppice Colliery, although the final tonne of coal had been mined at the pit some time before that.
Mining in the Dordon area started in 1860. Fifteen years later two Birch Coppice shafts were sunk by the company Morris & Shaw Limited.
Between 1911 and 1924 another shaft was sunk to a depth 1,397 feet initially to raise coal but between 1921 and 1966 it was used for ventilation, pumping water and transporting men and materials.
A major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice Colliery in 1933. The scheme involved new steel head frames, modification of the winding engines, a new surface screening plant and a completely redesigned underground layout, working the coal by a method which was modern for its time ~ longwall advance.
In 1947 Britain's coal mines were nationalised. In 1957 a second major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice, deepening both the main shafts to a depth of 1,092 feet. Steam winding on all shafts was replaced with electrically powered winders.
Whats this got to do with Atherstone you may ask?
Well, Thats more or less were it really is. Its the name thats apparentlly been given to the new railfreight terminal at BIRCH COPPICE Business Park.
Birch Coppice Business Park is connected to the main UK railway infrastructure and to Europe via the Channel Tunnel. The site has its own rail sidings and the facility to provide dedicated rail access to several development plots.
TNT Logistics has taken a massive 733,000sq ft (68,095sq m) £30 million rail served distribution facility standing on a 40 acre (16 ha) rail served plot.The facility receives daily consignments of automotive components for Volkswagen United Kingdom Limited by rail direct from Germany via the Channel Tunnel.
Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal operated by Roadways Container Logistics is designed to handle up to 8 containerised rail consignments per day from UK docks such as Southampton.
I can't see many locals being happy with a site in North Warwickshire being called Birmingham. I fail to see what it's got to do with Birmingham.
www.birchcoppice.co.uk/images/site.jpg
press releases
31/01/2006
LAYING OF NEW RAILWAY TRACK FOR FREIGHT TERMINAL SHOULD EASE REGION`S INCREASING ROAD CONGESTION
The West Midland's railway infrastructure has been increased by several miles with the building of a rail freight terminal which will help reduce road congestion caused by heavy goods vehicles using the region's motorways and roads.
The construction of a £multi - million freight terminal covering an area the size of 13 football pitches at Birch Coppice Business Park near junction 10 of the M42 motorway will act as an inland railhead receiving incoming containerised goods from UK ports such as Southampton. The facility will also handle outgoing containerised freight for exporting companies in the area.
Britain's consumer appetite for imported goods from the Far East and China has seen an increase in deep sea containerised freight by almost 10% in recent years. New high volume container terminals to be built on the Thames and at Harwich will relieve other ports currently operating at near full capacity.
To reduce the reliance on road haulage, containers will be transported by rail to inland facilities such as at Birch Coppice Business Park which are situated close to huge conurbations. An average freight train removes 50 heavy goods vehicles from roads.
The deal to secure the huge investment was handled by Birmingham based commercial property agents Eagleton & Co. acting on behalf of I M Properties` Birch Coppice Business Park and NAI Fuller Peiser representing the future operator of the Freight terminal.
Five years ago I M Properties the Warwick based owner and developer of the 400 acre Birch Coppice Business Park sunk over £20 million in regeneration of the derelict former British Coal mine site in North Warwickshire. Infrastructure work at the time included the laying of over 5 miles of branch line and sidings to facilitate a huge 40 acre distribution hub for TNT Logistics.
Through the use of rail for automotive components imported from Germany via the Channel Tunnel, TNT reduced lorry journeys by 8,000 per year saving 2 million miles.
This latest capital project to increase rail freight sidings at Birch Coppice Business Park reinforces North Warwickshire's claim to have attracted the first privately funded significant freight railway to the region in over a 100 years.
14/03/2006
MASSIVE CRANE GANTRIES FOR RAIL TERMINAL MAKE 2,000 MILE JOURNEY BY SEA, RIVER AND ROAD TO NORTH WARWICKSHIRE
What is thought to be the largest structures to pass along the A5 trunk road since the heyday of the North Warwickshire Coal Fields have arrived at a former colliery site after a journey of almost 2,000 miles from Finland.
Four huge fabricated steel gantries each 32m (104 ft) long and each weighing 30 tonnes arrived recently at Birch Coppice Business Park near Junction 10 of the M42 motorway, after a journey by sea from Helsinki to the port of Hull in East Yorkshire. From there the bridgelike structures were transhipped to barges for the journey up stream on the River Humber and the River Trent to Flixborough in Lincolnshire. Special road trains each with 22 wheels and front and rear end steering were used on the final 102 miles of the journey via the M18, M1 and M42 motorways to Birch Coppice.
Destined for the construction site of a £19million rail freight terminal at the former Birch Coppice Colliery site the gantries are the main framework of two rail mounted cranes. Each will be capable of lifting 40 tonnes and will be used to unload initially 6 trains per day of containerised goods imported from China and the Far East through Southampton Docks. The expectations in the growth of container traffic into the UK will increase the number of trains arriving at Birch Coppice.
All told 16 other massive loads were delivered over several weeks from Finland to the site in North Warwickshire.
John Willis the site manager at Birch Coppice, once employed as an engine driver of goods trains that served the coal mine two decades ago said "The construction of the rail freight terminal marks another milestone in the regeneration of the area around Dordon. When Birch Coppice Colliery closed in 1987 it employed over 1,000 men. Blue - chip businesses which have relocated to the business park have already generated hundreds of new jobs for local people. Our objective is to reach the 1000 target in the near future."
The North Warwickshire Coal Field once boasted 18 sizeable collieries. Daw Mill Colliery near Atherstone is the only pit in production in the region but mine operator UK Coal has recently announced it may reopen Arley Colliery which closed in 1968.
Birch Coppice recorded its highest coal output of 660,998 tonnes in 1955/56. In the 112 year period between 1875 and the mine closure in 1987 total coal extracted amounted to 60 million tonnes.
Warwick based IM Properties responsible for regenerating the former Birch Coppice mine site has invested over £25 million in transforming a blot on the landscape into a thriving business location. Major distribution logistics firm TNT has recruited 400 employees at its massive 40 acre distribution hub on the park and UPS - the world's largest package delivery company has acquired a 24acre development plot capable of accommodating a 300,000 sq ft building.
The construction of the rail freight terminal will be completed by August this year.
Birmingham property agents Eagleton and Company are responsible for marketing the development plots at Birch Coppice Business Park. It is hoped that a third major logistics occupier will be attracted by the prime location with on site railway facilities alongside the M42 motorway in the heart of central England.
Site History
IM Properties has established an enviable reputation for regenerating brownfield sites into high quality industrial and business parks. With several highly successful examples in the West Midlands ~ including the award winning Junction Six scheme in Birmingham ~ the company's jewel in the crown is undoubtably the 400 acre (161 ha) Birch Coppice Business Park.
Turning Brown to Green
Acquired by IM Properties in 1997 transformation of the former Birch Coppice Colliery site began in 2000. From then on, IM Properties has embarked on a masterplan that will not only turn a brown site into green but will also regenerate vital employment opportunities in the region.
27th March 1987 marked the official closure date of Birch Coppice Colliery, although the final tonne of coal had been mined at the pit some time before that.
Mining in the Dordon area started in 1860. Fifteen years later two Birch Coppice shafts were sunk by the company Morris & Shaw Limited.
Between 1911 and 1924 another shaft was sunk to a depth 1,397 feet initially to raise coal but between 1921 and 1966 it was used for ventilation, pumping water and transporting men and materials.
A major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice Colliery in 1933. The scheme involved new steel head frames, modification of the winding engines, a new surface screening plant and a completely redesigned underground layout, working the coal by a method which was modern for its time ~ longwall advance.
In 1947 Britain's coal mines were nationalised. In 1957 a second major reconstruction took place at Birch Coppice, deepening both the main shafts to a depth of 1,092 feet. Steam winding on all shafts was replaced with electrically powered winders.
