The Eddie Stobart train makes its way through France on its way to the UK from Valencia in Spain. The train is part of Stobart’s CO2 reduction strategy

New Spain to England freight train

I DON’T know about you, but Eddie Stobart is all about green trucks from Cumbria. And a brilliant logistics business it is, too. But a Stobart train?

Now you don’t readily think of that…although train deliveries have been part of the company’s transport arsenal for the last three years.

Now, the company has gone further. To cut down on CO2 emissions, Stobart has a weekly train from Valencia in Spain to the Dagenham railhead in the UK. The journey is 1,100 miles, and brings fruit and veg one way; and returns with pallets the other.

It is, says Stobart, the longest train journey in Europe by a single operator and the first fully refrigerated train service to go through Eurotunnel; it will provide a reduction of 13.7m kilometres of road journeys per year resulting in an 8,625 tonne reduction in CO2 emissions. It is also faster than transporting the goods by road.

So next time you bite into your Valencia orange, watch for the extra juice