Cemex and DB Cargo are celebrating the millionth tonne of Aggregates supplied to their Warrington Rail depot, since the depot opened in mid-2016.

The location was initially thought of as a temporary site but has now become firmly established as a core Rail depot in Cemex’s UK Supply Chain network to serve the Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire areas and supply vital building materials to support with the growth of housing, construction and infrastructure projects across these regions.

The depot has often been described as a ‘pop-up’ depot due its original installation taking a matter of weeks, using land adjacent to the West Coast Mainline with a readymade weighbridge and office. Supplied by rail from our Dove Holes quarry, the depot is an example of how industry can support wider ambitions for the growth of rail freight through connecting potentially challenging sites and locations to the mainline.

Existing market demand across the region provided the catalyst for Cemex and DB Cargo to seek innovative solutions to support with the movement and distribution of materials, whilst helping to ease congestion on the UK’s road network by reducing the number of truck journeys that would otherwise have been required.

Each delivery by rail can carry up to 2,000 tonnes of construction materials in comparison to a HGV vehicle, which is only able to carry around 18 – 30 tonnes per journey. Last year Cemex ran over 2,000 rail freight trains, the equivalent of taking around 1,500 truck journeys off UK roads.

Read the full press release: HERE