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Mr. Robert Hughes
asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many grants under section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 were made in 1979–80 and 1980–81; and for what purposes.
Mr. Eyre
Eighteen grants were agreed in each of the financial years 1979–80 and 1980–81. They were for the purposes shown in the following table. The award of grant in these cases benefited the environment by preventing heavy lorry traffic on unsuitable roads.
Company and location
| Initial grant agreed
| Date of approval
| Purpose of grant
|
£
| |||
| Shipbreaking Ltd., Queenborough (Isle of Sheppey) | 112,000 | 13 June 1979 | Refurbishment of rail facilities for handling scrap |
| Tilbury Roadstone Ltd., Barham, Suffolk | 469,000 | 13 June 1979 | Provision of bulk aggregate distribution depot and wagons |
| Midlands Electricity Board, Hereford | 40,000 | 18 July 1979 | Provision of rail connection to new industrial heating plant |
| Redland Aggregates Ltd., Elstow (Beds.), Padworth (Berks.), Trowse (Norfolk), Sevenoaks (Kent) | 993,000 | 14 September 1979 | Provision of aggregate terminals and wagons |
| National Coal Board, Shireoaks (Notts.) | 567,000 | 14 August 1979 | Provision of rapid loading dispatch facilities |
| Ciba-Geigy Plastics, Duxford | 325,000 | 20 August 1979 | Provision of new rail connection into chemical plant |
| ICI Agricultural Division, Birmingham | 175,000 | 20 August 1979 | Provision of new wagons to carry traffic to Ciba-Geigy's chemical plant |
| Tarmac Roadstone (Northern) Ltd., Topley Pike (Buxton), Agecroft and Widnes | 217,000 | 14 September 1979 | Improvements to rail facilities at a quarry and two depots and wagons |
| Redland Aggregates Ltd., Tallington (Lincs.) | 123,000 | 14 September 1979 | Provision of new aggregate terminal and wagons |
| Immingham Terminals, Stallingborough (Humberside) | 574,000 | 31 October 1979 | Provision of warehouse for steel products |
| Allen Rowland, Tyesley, Birmingham | 86,000 | 28 February 1980 | Improvement of sidings and loading facilities at scrap yard |
| Albright & Wilson, Oldbury, Birmingham | 121,000 | 30 March 1980 | Renewal of reception facilities for chemicals |
| SCOTLAND | |||
| Ben Strachan & Co., Keith | 3,000 | 22 June 1979 | Provision of handling facilities |
| Associated British Maltsters, Airdrie and | 58,000 | 8 June 1979 | Restoration of track and viaduct |
| Dufftown | |||
| Bulk Handling Services Ltd., Leith | 27,000 | 4 April 1979 | Provision of grain handling facilities |
| William Cory & Sons, Law Junction, Carluke | 135,000 | 26 October 1979 | Upgrading and expansion of depot |
| Spillers Foods Ltd., Paisley | 35,000 | 26 November 1979 | Provision of depot and handling equipment |
| Thomas W. Ward, Wishaw | 137,000 | 8 February 1980 | Provision of handling facilities for scrap metal |
1980–81
| |||
| ENGLAND | |||
| British Transport Docks Board, Garston | 289,000 | 21 April 1980 | Provision of bottom discharge and conveyor system for coal |
| Railstore Ltd., Gidea Park, Romford | 155,000 | 13 May 1980 | Improvement and extension of rail siding serving warehousing |
| British Industrial Sand, Middleton Towers, Kings Lynn | 624,000 | 23 July 1980 | Improvement of sidings for dispatching sand |
| ICI Winnington, Winsford | 333,000 | 23 July 1980 | Provision of wagons for soda ash |
| Redfearn National Glass, Cudworth | 170,000 | 23 July 1980 | Improvement of sidings to handle sand |
| Rockware Glass, Doncaster and Knottingly | 646,000 | 23 July 1980 | Modernisation of sidings and unloading equipment for sand and soda ash |
| Steetley Minerals, Hartlepool | 400,000 | 15 July 1980 | Provision of new wagons to carry dolomite and a shunting locomotive |
| Foster Yeoman Ltd., Theale and Merehead | 1,875,000 | 30 September 1980 | Provision of new aggregate terminal, improved loading facilities at quarry, and wagons |
| Southern Depot Co. Ltd., Letchworth | 65,000 | 14 November 1980 | Provision of under-rail hopper discharge system for coal |
| Ribblesdale Cement Ltd., Clitheroe (Lancs.) (This was a joint DTp/SDD award) | 976,000 | 1 December 1980 | Provision of facilities at Clitheroe and Gartsherrie and wagons |
| English Clays, Lovering, Pochin & Co. Ltd./Tiger Railcar, N. & S. Devon, Stoke and Strood | 880,000 | 16 February 1981 | Modernising facilities at West Country railheads; new terminal at Stoke; and wagons |
| SCOTLAND | |||
| George Cohen & Sons & Co. Ltd., Motherwell | 116,000 | 22 April 1980 | Provision of scrap steel handling facilities |
| Bruce Lindsay Waldie Ltd., Edinburgh | 28,000 | 22 April 1980 | Provision of coal discharge equipment |
| Robert Hutchinson & Co., Kirdcaldy, Fife | 40,000 | 10 June 1980 | Provision of discharge hopper and conveyor belts |
| Roche Products Ltd., Dalry, Ayrshire | 1,200,000 | 24 July 1980 | Provision of siding to new processing plant |
| Rowntree Mackintosh Ltd., Perth | 151,000 | 27 August 1980 | Provision of rail connection distribution depot |
| John Russell Ltd., Grangemouth | 118,000 | 7 November 1980 | Provision of siding and associated warehousing to handle chemicals and synthetic rubber |
| WALES | |||
| Associated Octel, Amlwch | 52,000 | 16 July 1980 | Provision of rail wagons for the carriage of ethylene dibromide |