Merger and Operations
To better manage their fleet availability and scale needs, Hanson ARC and Foster Yeoman founded Mendip Rail in 1993. The assets are still owned by the parent companies and the staff seconded to Mendip Rail.
The eight locomotives display four different liveries:
- old Foster Yeoman livery (predominantly silver)
- new Foster Yeoman livery (silver and blue, Yeoman logo)
- Hanson livery (silver and blue, Hanson logo)
- Mendip Rail livery (silver, green and orange, MRL logo)
Mendip Rail's class 59s work services between various destinations which have changed over time according to demand and specific contracts. They have worked regularly over southern railway tracks, for example to the former Foster Yeoman terminals at Eastleigh and Botley, as well as delivery aggregates for construction work on the Thames Barrier, Second Severn Crossing, Channel Tunnel and most recently Heathrow Terminal 5, which required 3 million tonnes of stone.
Mendip Rail hauls about 4.5 million tonnes of stone from Torr Works each year, and about 2.5 million tonnes from Whatley Quarry.
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