Green Light for Daventry Rail Freight Terminal Extension

 

An 8 million sq ft extension of Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (Dirft) has been given the green light. Dirft III will have a capacity for up to 32 freight trains in and out of the site each day, handling more than 500,000 containers a year.

Located next to the M1 motorway and the West Coast main line, DIRFT III is the first Strategic Rail Freight Interchange to secure a Development Consent Order (DCO) in line with the Planning Act 2008 and is the largest rail-linked logistics development in the UK.

The facility will employ around 9,000 people once it has been completed. The first buildings of the £1 billion project are expected to be ready by 2016.

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