The government is to dispose of 22 rail freight sites across the UK as part of a sale of former British Rail property.
Today the Department for Transport announced it had instructed Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) to market the sites which stretch from Devon to Lanarkshire.
The government said that the railway industry should have first call on these sites and other retained land where there is a need but where there is “no reasonable prospect of a rail/sustainable transport use” they will be sold for other purposes.
The properties were once used by British Rail but not required by any of its private sector successors after privatisation in the mid 1990s.
They are now owned by BRB (Residuary) a wholly owned subsidiary of the Secretary of State for Transport.
They are located in:
Aldermaston, Berkshire; Carlisle Cumbria; Great Yarmouth Norfolk; Greenford Greater London; Iver Bucks; Langley Mill Derbyshire; Market Harborough Leics; Newhaven East Sussex; Plymouth Devon; Sunderland Tyne and Wear; Theale Berkshire; Toton Notts; Westerleigh South Gloucs; Weston-Super-Mare North Somerset; Westbury Wiltshire; Alloa Clackmannan; Bishopbriggs (Cadder) Lanark; Irvine North Ayrshire; Mossend North Lanarkshire; Law Junction South Lanarkshire; Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd; Goodwick Penbrokeshire.
References: EGi News 02/03/06
