Langley Oil terminal and Colnbrook Logistics Centre
Hi All
First post / thread here...
I'm the 'author' (cartographer) of the 'London Railway Atlas' (Ian Allan) and in researching the Third edition have hit the buffers with two recent infrastructure developments.
Firstly: Langley Oil Terminal (the Langley one stop east of Slough)... Does anyone have a date when it became disused (i.e. last oil delivery)? I think it survived well into the 2000's, the sidings are intact still on Google maps satellite and it's merely 'disused' on Quail, but they're now overgrown and fenced off from the main line.
Secondly: Colnbrook Logistics Centre (CLC) on the old GWR Staines branch, just west of Heathrow airport. Anyone know when it opened? T5 construction officially started September 2002, but it was initially site clearance and I don't think proper construction requiring inward rail-borne aggregates and steel started until early 2003... so around then?
I think the Foster Yeoman terminal at the north end of the site opened first?
Any assistance would be much appreciated... many thanks!
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