LOADS OF RUBBISH
THE very first containerised ‘Binliner’ service was introduced in 1977, when a new train formed of 20 ex-Freightliner bogie flat wagons, each carrying three 20ft compaction rubbish containers, began running between the Greater London Council’s RTS (refuse treatment station) at Brentford and the old Amey Roadstone quarry at Appleford, near Didcot.
This train, which was scheduled to run six days a week, was followed in 1980 by two similar workings – one from the GLC’s Northolt RTS to the London Brick landfill site at Calvert (Buckinghamshire), and another from its Hendon RTS in Cricklewood to the old brick clay pits at Stewartby on the Bedford to Bletchley line. As the Stewartby train had to reverse at Bedford, however, it was initially limited to
