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Issue 5 2018 - Freight Business Journal
///FREIGHT BREAK
The 130-tonne retirement giſt
The Rail Freight Tony Group (RFG)
marked the retirement of its chairman
Berkeley by
naming a GBRf class 66 locomotive aſter him at London Victoria station on 27 June. RFG executive director Maggie Simpson paid tribute to his tireless work to enhance and
support open access, modal shiſt and the future growth of rail freight by consistently pressing the case both within Westminster and among UK businesses. She added: “Tony Berkeley
leaves the sector wholly transformed from the one he
joined some 21 years ago. His leadership, commitment and sheer determination have been instrumental in delivering that progress. I know I can speak for all RFG members, both past and present, in thanking him for all he has done and wishing him a very happy and well-deserved retirement.” A 130-odd tonnes of loco is
certainly a bit more impressive than a clock, even if you can’t put it on your mantelpiece.
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Back on the job again
Many of us will have had the experience of builders starting work on a new extension or kitchen only to disappear for several days but 92 years sounds a bit extreme. That though is effectively what
happened to the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. The Gothic and Art Nouveau
building was designed by renowned architect Antoni Gaudi who, in fairness did spend 40 years building it before he died in 1926 - but it has remained unfinished since. Now though, at long last,
completion is in prospect with the help of a Lancashire quarry and logistics operator Europa Worldwide. The stone originally used for the
church’s bell towers is sandstone from Montjuic in Barcelona, but
will have provided approximately 120,000 tonnes of gritstone by the time the church is completed. And, Europa Road’s Manchester
branch provides the vehicles which transport up to 300 tonnes of gritstone a day to the site.
in Manchester, Paul Martin, adds: “We’ve been carrying trailers full of gritstone from Brinscall Quarry daily for almost two years and we’re set to continue until 2021, so it’s a very big and prestigious contract for Europa.”
this source was exhausted years ago. Aſter a worldwide search for matching stone, gritstone from Brinscall Quarry, near Chorley, among others, to complete the construction of the eight remaining
towers. The quarry
Emma Armstrong, director
at Armstrongs Aggregates, which owns the quarry said: “Being a family-run business in Lancashire it is quite humbling, but also very satisfying that we’re supplying the stone to complete the most photographed religious monument in the world.” Europa Road branch manager
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