Competition for Road Haulage

Up to about 10/12 years ago the Aire & Calder was carrying mainly fuel and aggregates. Coal used to go that way to Ferrybridge, but that’s closed and partly demolished. The dockers put paid to a lot of canal and river traffic when they refused to handle Tom Pudding, Bacat and Lash systems.

I would love to see it all opened up again, why stop at Stourton? My old mate lives on the river Soar and sails up to Whitby via the Trent if he can find someone to help with the locks.