East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Terminal - WATCH the Loco & Container Moves 06/07/2022
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2022
- Great views of this site! See FLT & DB Cargo Class 66 Loco's arriving and moving around the yard lines.
Watch the impressive Maritime lifting equipment moving containers around with ease - Organising them in the terminal and loading them for the next outbound service from the terminal.
There was something mesmerising filming this - Watching all of the well organised movements across the terminal - It was like a supersized game of Tetris..! Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did filming it.
Thanks for watching.
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thumbnail was that good I couldn't tell if this was a model or real life
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I kept thinking..."wow...this must be N gauge and the person operating this model must be 120ft tall!"...hypnootic stuff......okay I'll stay on the medication!! Loved this!!
Loved the drone footage. Never watched any videos previously on the terminal. Needless to say the container driver was very competent.
Hi Ken, hope you’re well. This was filmed from the bank rather than using the drone. The yard is set down below in a bowl with the bank providing good views 👍
Idk why but I just love the look of the Class 66, it just looks so detailed, even in the model form. It also looks so powerful and strong to pull all those flatcars cross the entire country! It has also answered my question on how they get the containers on/off the train. Tbh I thought they would have a gantry crane like in a port but it’s still fascinating to watch! As a train lover this does put a smile on my face!
very interesting and very nice looking terminal!
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Just loved the hi-tech stopping equipment. A traffic cone. Ha
Nice video. Well maintained terminal. Thumbs up 👍🏽
Really great footage many thanks for sharing.
Thanks, some nice camera angles, very informative video.
Great vid showing what goes on behind the scenes 👏 👍
I really expected the depot to be a lot bigger, well, now I know. Thankyou.
Hi Barry, I think it’s been expanded out to the area on the right hand side since I captured the footage. I’ll go back again soon for an update. 👍
Nice idea for a simple diorama thank you for uploading this video.
Thanks Kevin - Glad you liked it 👍
I thought the same
I drive passed here almost 1-2 a week on my delivery around Nottingham. Amazing view especially with the east midland flight path
Beautiful
Great capture 👍♐️
Hi there I've driven past several times and it's nice to see it in operation
Dude ... don't think I have recently watched a more entertaining and informative RUclips video. Well, done. Without you, we'd just assume magic made our goods appear at our doors !!!!
Thanks - Glad you enjoyed it.. The way those containers get moved around and stacked like Lego bricks was bizarrely very interesting to see/film! 😀👍
The first red container he put on didn't look secure at all , very interesting footage and drone footage, thanks
Looks like they have only one speed - SLOW. I appreciate low speed need for safety around marshalls etc. but even on the runaround the loco is crawling on tickover. S'pose there's no rush if he has to wait for the trailers to be loaded. They should have put railheads into the vast new warehouses on the M18 (Westmoor Link J4) and the newest one being constructed by J1 (Bramley) and get some trucks off the road.. Pleased to see the Newell & Wright yard developing at the former Tinsley Yard by the A630 Parkway.
Great video, thank you👍
This terminal looks so calm and chill. Most are bustling with attitudes and aggressive driving lol
It’s being expanded now on the right hand side 👍
Thank you for this. Had no idea of the extent of this Freight Terminal Site and all those containers in transit.
Thanks John.. It’s got plenty of space it grow in size also.
I work at EMG on a DHL Contract and always have a quick glance when I am leaving - a great video showing what goes on. I teach people to drive those container handlers (not at EMG) but they are great to drive once you have had some practice. There is a similar operation down in Crick at the International Rail Freight Terminal
Thanks Tim 👍
Enthralling video. The first view of the train looked like a row of marching ants. Always amazes me an engine can pull a long train around so many different corners and they all stay on the track. (My train set didn't).
My train set was just as bad also! 🤣🤣
@@trainsplanes My Mum always called mine a 'train set' and I was at pains to point out "it's a Railway Layout!!" It was set up on 3 doors so quite a large layout in the basement boiler room.
Very cool
That’s a cracking video 👍
Thanks again Arthur 👍
Wow I drive past there a lot and watch the planes from up there but I have never seen a train move. I've seen a few on the Castle Donington siding.
Thanks for this, very interesting. It looks like there is space there for future growth. Looking at the satellite images of the area they seem to be prepared for this as there is a double length siding just out of sight beside the main line so that could hold a couple of trains there when they are busy. Apparently the current site capacity is 16 trains per day, each 775m long. 👍
Def room for growth here - The surrounding area has more space for big box warehousing so it’s likely in the future.
In Europe, the standard length for freight trains with locomotives is 740 meters. There are of course regional exceptions. The 775 meters make sense when the freight train changes direction and the locomotive has to go to the other side of the train. This way the route will not be blocked.
An area I don't know, thanks for posting..........Mike in Wales
Thanks Mike.. 👍
An easy and cheap enough layout for anyone who likes that kind of thing.
The trains just literally snaked their way into the freight terminal.
Very interesting video thanks for sharing. Those container handling vehicles are some bits of kit.
Does anyone know why the line into the yard was built so curvy rather than just a gentle sweeping curve into the 3 line sidings ?
Actually having just looked on Google earth it doesn't look anywhere nearly that curvy.
Wow ... this yard is starting to fill up with boxes ... its a bit of a shame its not near to any knitting though ... although i am sure that when the 99s arrive, they'll feature here ... well ... hopefully ...
Ive driven past there a few times trying to count the number of containers. Not really, I had my eyes on the road.
Nice video very informative , but I wonder why they only made the block end big enough for one loco . What happens if it failed on route and was topped , how do you get the 2 locos round then 😂
You’d detach both loco’s and either leave the dead one in the space between the first set of points and the second, or clear the first set of points and set it back onto the end of whichever road is empty. Then run the other loco round, come down to the dead loco via the empty loading road, haul it back upto the opposite end and set both locos back onto the train. The other easier option is to leave the dead loco attached to the train, just run round the good loco and the train then departs top & tailed.
I thought this was a model railway from the thumbnail lol
Maritime transports terminal at Normanton is crying out for a decent audit
My questions why didn’t the train take the closer track for easier loading.
The DB Loco uses that later in the video so both tracks are in use once that’s arrived.
why not use the closer track to the concrete pad?????
That's what I was thinking.
Later in the video - You’ll see the DB Loco using that track so it’s just down to scheduling I believe.
What isn’t obvious from the video is that these two trains arrived about an hour apart, and the FL one departs first and then about an hour later the DB one departs. If the FL went onto the closest road, once they’d unloaded any boxes they wouldn’t be able to load any onto the wagons as that would block them lifting boxes off the DB train which would then be on the 2nd road. Doing it this way means they can strip the FL train, put on a few boxes in the time before the DB arrived, then once the DB has arrived they can strip boxes off that and then continue to reach the FL on the second road to finish loading it. Once the FL is loaded they can start putting boxes onto the DB train, the fact it blocks off access to the FL isn’t now an issue as it’s already loaded. And whilst both didn’t come in with many boxes that won’t always be the case, so best to stick with the method of working that everyone is familiar with.
Excellent watch. Why is the approach such a curve though? Is it for scrubbing loco and train speed.
The use curves where the is a steeper climb. That's quite a clib up from the main lines further below
@@modelrailwaynoob Ah okay and thank you for the reply 👍
It's because it skirts behind the East Midlands Airport Hilton hotel plus it also follows the same path as the A50 and Hilton Hotel Lane which run parallel with the railway for a distance.
Is this the line that runs through to Felixstowe? If so these trains run about thirty feet from the end of my back garden.
Hi Stephen, services are run to Felixstowe from EMG.. It’s not a dedicated line though.
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this place looks new
I think it opened around March 2020..
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What scale is it and how are the road vehicles controlled ?
It not a model, it a real life freight yard.
Bit of a few curves to get in
Hi, Can you share the location and name of the company
It's the East Midlands Gateway and it's run by Maritime..
Great video with a daft question, how do the loaders know which wagon to load
I don't know the exact answer to that however I suspect it's likely determined by the individual weight of each container.. Someone else will likely confirm..
Bar coding?
I would imagine they're given a loading plan. Most likely they have a screen in the cab of the reach stacker which tells the operator where to put each container.
it all goes on the container number, usually 4 letters like TLDU then numbers after those, every container has it's own, the tug has a tablet in the cab telling them which number/container, where it is in storage/lane/stack and who wants it truck/shunter/train and position.
The reason I know this is because I am a Maritime Truck driver, and I've been here only a few times but been to a few rail ports. Iport in Doncaster, Maritime ltd in wakefield, Newell and Wrights in Sheffield.
Only been working for them this year but I love the job
@@will4may175 I work for a company that fumigates import and export commodities on trains and in containers in the US. So your first hand knowledge reference what's in the video is much more relevant and accurate than my previous post. I therefore deleted it.
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Really interesting, though, I think a straight line entry would have been better!
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Who designed the track layout? All those curves. It seems too fussy. Is there a reason?
Hi Roger, the curves are gradually adding elevation for a road bridge which is out of shot. It did look strange to me initially also.
It's also down to the fact the railway is tucked behind East Midlands Airport Hilton hotel and the railway runs alongside both the A50 and Hilton Hotel Lane which run parallel to the railway for some distance.
Is it going so slow to save fuel. If we re-opened a few coal mines we could go back to steam!!
I don't know why new freight terminals are built with the bare minimum for loco runrounds and cripple sidings.
We're abouts is that
Hi Graham, I don’t think it shows on Google maps and others currently. It’s next to the Amazon DC in East Midlands.
@@trainsplanes thanks for ur message
its right next to east midlands airport, next to a village called kegworth
Thank you
A container handling facility, without a gantry crane?
It’s British and the yard is tiny so no need
Its completely disorganized you can be in there 4 hours and still not get done its the worst run place we go to for us haulers...whoevers in charge needs reliving of the duty as they have no idea how to run it.
How unbelievably stupid ! Were the rails set in the concrete the loaders would be able to drive up to the wagons instead of reaching.
Tiny depot just pissing in the wind here in the US we have depots the size of your English counties do it big or don't do it !
Yes, I am not quite sure why the UK chooses to build small yards regionally and not larger ones. The region that the yard in the video serves, also has 3 other small/medium sized intermodal terminals when maybe they should have been more ambitious and built a single large one. Even the largest intermodal container depot in the UK would only be about as big as the 5th or 6th largest in the US in terms of TEU's moved by rail.
We don't eat as many doughnuts in the UK😉
It’s a small, private yard. Feeds Amazon, DHL and half a dozen breakbulk/consolidation warehouses.
Must be cheap people running this terminal. Pity they opted for the Chinese SANY Reachstackers over the main European brands that build far more reliable and productive machines.
defeo not cheap people running this place they are the guys showing the rest the way maritime are no cheap company
@@guinnessbick They bought SANY. That is the cheapest Reachstaker in the market and does not hold up in a railroad environment. I know what I'm talking about!
Have another look Phil it's a kalmer stacker not a sany maritime are not a cheap operation.
@@stevenboyd6196 You mean Kalmar?. They build a basic version of their machine in their factory in China.