>>1869398and yet, here's the UK's largest grocery retailer - the third largest retailer in the world by revenue, apparently - bringing in fresh produce from Spain and the wider Mediterranean via rail freight, all the way to the goods yards connected to the Channel Tunnel link. from there the containers are cross-docked onto lorries, headed either to their country-wide distribution centres where they're destuffed and sent to supermarkets, or to their London freight yards where they're placed onto trains again headed for Scotland. you can watch them yourself, lumbering through the slow tracks at Doncaster every so often.
>Tesco was the first UK retailer to start running a dedicated rail service from Spain using temperature-controlled containers. It’s now established five weekly train services from Spain to its Barking depot, carrying an incredible 35,000 loads of fresh produce like oranges and lemons, cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes.>Why is Tesco is making that investment? Because moving goods by train is kinder to the environment than using lorries.>https://www.tescoplc.com/updates/2021/how-tesco-is-turning-to-trains-to-help-cut-the-emissions-it-takes-to-get-food-on-our-plates/ 