Freight traffic: Caithness - Sutherland - Inverness - South
Estimated flow: 12 months to 1st November 2003
| Traffic flow | Wagon loads per week |
Wagon loads per annum |
Route miles |
Rail miles per annum |
Road route miles saved |
Ton/miles off the roads |
| Norfrost refrigerators Georgemas - Doncaster |
20 | 1000 | 572 | 572,000 | 512,000 | 10,240,000 |
| Norfrost Steel & parts Doncaster - Georgemas |
5 | 250 | 572 | 143,000 | 128,000 | 2,560,000 |
| Thurso Building Supplies Glasgow - Thurso |
1.5 approx. |
90 | 340 | 30,600 | 26,730 | 534,600 |
| Safeway Perishables Mossend - Georgemas |
12 | 630 | 330 | 207,900 | 180,810 | 3,616,200 |
| Timber Kinbrace - Inverness |
13 approx. |
700 | 118 | 82,600 | 63,300 | 1,260,000 |
| B.P.Oil Grangemouth - Lairg |
6 | 300 | 231 | 69,300 | 63,300 | 1,266,000 |
| Miscellaneaous | 0.5 approx. |
30 | 330 | 9,900 | 8,610 | 172,200 |
| Glasgow - Georgemas (say) |
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| Totals | 58 | 3,000 | 1,115,300 | 982,450 | 19,649,000 |
Method:
Loaded wagons are taken to flow 50 weeks per annum, other than for perishables at 52 weeks per annum, and timber formed into 20 wagon trains x 35 per annum.
Shorter road mileages include Mossend - Glasgow (43), Georgemas - Doncaster via A1 (60), Kinbrace - Inverness (28), Grangemouth - Lairg (20).
A wagonload is taken as 20 tons.
Loaded wagons are taken to flow 50 weeks per annum, other than for perishables at 52 weeks per annum, and timber formed into 20 wagon trains x 35 per annum.
Shorter road mileages include Mossend - Glasgow (43), Georgemas - Doncaster via A1 (60), Kinbrace - Inverness (28), Grangemouth - Lairg (20).
A wagonload is taken as 20 tons.