malc step:
Hi Folks,
Just wondering if this service is still
running and has it effected anybody?Cheers Malc.
UK food service provider, Brakes is the latest client to sign up to using the Stobart Rail Freight link from Spain to bring fresh produce into the UK for its subsidiary, Pauleys.
The only mention so far, and this article was written in March 2010 on IGD
They have stopped runing it at this years start of fruit season in October
Good job to keep it on the roads for us
According to one opf my customers who use to send 2/3 loads a week up on it we could be in uk half aday quicker delivering the loads by road (legally) than the train service
and apparantly tesco would pay for any empty carriages but this year they are not
orys:
No, but trains are generally cheaper. Double manned train will deliver hundreds of tons at one time
Trains are generally more expensive, that is why train manufacturers sent rail stock by road when they have built it rather than putting it on the nearest rail line 
8 legger:
I maybe wrong but i though that the UK had a narrow gauge compaird to the rest of europe thats why the tunnel trains dont carry on to other cities?
Apart from Brusssels and Paris 
we had a night boat that took trains over to france from Dover Western docks back in the 70’s where the train carried on to Paris link 
jimti:
we had a night boat that took trains over to france from Dover Western docks back in the 70’s where the train carried on to Paris
I remember in my early European days on a boat to Boat out of Dover, I was returning to my wagon and opened a door on the wrong deck to be confronted by rail rolling stock, I hadn’t notice it loading when we boarded (it was dark) but there it was, a deck full of trains!!
Ross.
bigr250:
jimti:
we had a night boat that took trains over to france from Dover Western docks back in the 70’s where the train carried on to ParisI remember in my early European days on a boat to Boat out of Dover, I was returning to my wagon and opened a door on the wrong deck to be confronted by rail rolling stock, I hadn’t notice it loading when we boarded (it was dark) but there it was, a deck full of trains!!
Ross.
i can remember the sealink tubs with rail tracks on the decks.
jessicas dad:
… i can remember the sealink tubs with rail tracks on the decks.
You and me both Alex!! 
I remember the godawful smell on those boats and that you had to reverse onto them cos they only had doors at one end. 
dieseldave:
jessicas dad:
… i can remember the sealink tubs with rail tracks on the decks.You and me both Alex!!
I remember the godawful smell on those boats and that you had to reverse onto them cos they only had doors at one end.
Me three. I was also on the Puttgarten - Rodby ferry and tripped over a poxy railway line on the deck while trying to get back to my lorry
Our railway gauge was determined by the gauge of the horse-drawn carts which had been used to transport goods around the UK for the previous two thousand years before railways were invented.
This was four feet, eight and a half inches, and this distance was determined by the width necessary to accommodate the two horses needed to pull the cart.
So even the gauge of the world’s fastest and most modern high-speed railway in the year 2010 is determined by the size of a Roman horse’s arse. 
Harry Monk:
So even the gauge of the world’s fastest and most modern high-speed railway in the year 2010 is determined by the size of a Roman horse’s arse.
Fantastic, and if I’m not mistaken your ‘avatar’ is demonstrating the actual width of the arse of a Roman horse
Ross. 
